Bunny's Last Days: When Living Will Isn't Enough

Palliative care specialists, relatively new players on the health care scene, offer comfort, support, pain control and, if requested, spiritual counsel, helping them sort through often confusing and ambiguous medical options. Unlike hospice care, which requires patients to forgo aggressive medical care, palliative care allows patients to continue any level of medical care they desire. They help people make tough decisions that are less about dying than about how they want to live at the end of their lives. Kaiser Health News