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Program Gives Dying People Chance At Giving Longer Goodbyes

By Julie Bierach, NPR News April 11, 2011 KFF Health News Original

A program in St. Louis is giving hospice patients one more way to say goodbye to their loved ones – using a series of volunteers trained to help them tell their stories.

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