When your friends and loved ones die, you think hard.

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But more staff, including a psychologist, who will treat people affected by post-traumatic stress disorder after seeing loved ones die, and a water and sanitation health expert, will fly out over the next few days.

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Anyone who has visited dying relatives hooked up to tubes and monitors in intensive care knows that the decision to let loved ones die in peace does not depend on who is paying the costs.

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When Elizabeth (Betsy) McCaughey was lieutenant governor of New York in the 1990s, forging a combative reputation for clashing with Governor George Pataki and her own party, she kept hearing from bereaved constituents whose loved ones had entered the hospital for treatment, only to die from infections they got there.

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Families were "with their loved ones who they were so excited to see alive, only now to watch them die a slow, painful death from their rotting flesh because the infections are out of control and they need surgery, " Furin said.

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