If I were terminally ill I would highly consider entering a hospice, especially once I could no longer care for myself. According to Leming and Dickinson (2016) “The primary goals of hospice care are to promote patient–family autonomy, to assist patients in obtaining pain control and real quality of life before they die, and to enable families of patients to receive supportive help during the dying process and the bereavement period” (p. 216). These are all great ways to have a better, more dignified death. I have no children, and am not sure if it is a part of my plan to have any, so I do not expect my next of kin to care for me. Even if eventually I do decide to have children, it is not as common throughout American culture to care for a
