And because the principle of the hospice movement is neither to hasten nor to postpone death, the Medicare hospice benefit pays only for symptom management and pain control.

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Ms Martin said her father, a retired accountant, stopped eating to "hasten his death in the absence of any law change" and drank only tea and water.

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Hospitals are reluctant to do that now, because if the patient has had the other kind of stroke (caused by bleeding), the clot dissolver may hasten his death.

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