| Article: | SHEA-TAYLOR: Truth about life's ending Do you or do you not want the truth? If your answer is yes, will you receive it? Then what? Only one-third of 603 terminally ill cancer patients from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Texas in a new, federally funded study, said their doctors had discussed end-of-life care. This would include hospice, which delivers comfort with pain-relieving drugs and with compassion, its mission caring instead of curing. |