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history of hospices

Caring for the dying has been a human responsibility throughout recorded history. The word “hospice” comes from medieval institutions that offered practical and spiritual assistance to pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Hospice, History Of]

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