Quality of Life-A Paradox at the End of Life?

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  "We are here not only to help you to die but to help you live until you die," Cecily Saunders when she began caring for the dying.A seemingly metaphoric proposition then,but today,after forty years optimizing quality of life (QoL) of those with incurable diseases,this has become the primary goal of palliative medicine.
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