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Talking about the dying process early can be supportive for caregivers and their loved ones. AlexanderFord/E+ via Getty Images

July 14, 2026

Most Americans prefer to die at home, but the US healthcare system often prevents it

Karen Lutfey Spencer, University of Colorado Denver and Jane Callahan, North Carolina Central University

‘Fix-it’ medical approaches often go against people’s wishes near the end of life, creating unnecessary and preventable suffering.

High-rise apartment blocks in Cowcaddens, central Glasgow. Richard Johnson/Shutterstock

November 13, 2024

Dying is more painful when society won’t listen – stories of financial hardship that show how end‑of‑life care needs to change

Naomi Richards, University of Glasgow

The distress experienced by people near death is not limited to pain caused by illness or disease. Our research sheds light on the economic and political reasons dying is much harder for some.

The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association is calling on health authorities to “implement a more compassionate approach to end-of-life visitations … during the COVID-19 pandemic.” (Shutterstock)

May 28, 2020

Coronavirus public health restrictions shouldn’t mean dying alone

Barbara Pesut, University of British Columbia

Preventing people from dying alone in a pandemic takes ingenuity and money, but it’s the right thing to do.

Most Australians would rather die at home than in a hospital ward, so why aren’t we enabling this? Flickr/anique

November 16, 2015

To die at home or in hospital? Aussies want one but we fund the other

Nikki McCaffrey, Flinders University

Despite Australians’ wishes, we spend more on people dying in hospital than enabling them to die at home.

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