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Several thousand years ago the preacher in the Book of Ecclesiastes wrote: ‘There is a time to be born and a time to die’, and yet though this is a certain fact, death today is a subject not discussed with ease.
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Moscrop, J. (1995). Looking at death and dying. In: Robbins, J., Moscrop, J. (eds) Caring for the Dying Patient and the Family. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3376-8_1
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