‘Is she dying?’ one of the sisters asked me. I didn’t know how to answer the question. I wasn’t even sure what the word ‘dying’ meant anymore.

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Atul Gawande, in his article “Hospice medical care for dying patients” in The New Yorker.

Yes, the article is classically long. But it’s one of the best things I’ve read in all my years on this planet of ours. I beg you to do the same.