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;;Text A It Doesn’t Have to Be Sad: The Life of a Hospice nurse Text B Why Relatives Do Not Donate Organs for Transplants: “Sacrifice” or “Gift of Life” ;Everyone must experience birth, growth and death. Life and death, as a sensitive topic, arouses different feelings from different people. For many death brings sadness, but others think death is a renewal of life. Nowadays many people are more concerned about how to enjoy a good and decent death than how to live a happy life. In this unit, we will talk about life and death. When people hear the word hospice, they usually link it to death and dying. In fact, hospice is focused more about providing care, comfort and support to patients during their final days of life. Hospice care is actually end-of- ;Life care. A team of health care professionals and volunteers provides it. They give medical, psychological, and spiritual support. The goal of the care is to help people who are dying have peace, comfort, and dignity. The caregivers try to control pain and other symptoms so a person can remain as alert and comfortable as possible. Hospice programs also provide services to support a patient’s family. Usually, a hospice patient is expected to live 6 months or less. Hospice care can take place at home, at a hospice center, in a hospital or in a skilled nursing facility.;Background Information Pre-reading Questions Text A It doesn’t have to be sad: the life of a Hospice nurse Vocabulary Exercises ;; Diana K. Sugg is an independent writer and professional editor. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 in the Beat Reporting category for “ Cruelest Mystery: Death Before Life”. As a health reporter at the Baltimore Sun, Diana K. Snugg covers a broad range of medical advances, research and health policy. In her eight years at the paper, Sugg has won local, state and national awards.;*;Outside the USA, the term hospice tends to be primarily associated with the particular buildings or institutions that specialize in such care (a