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'A hospice is not simply somewhere to die'

Focus: Hospices provide comfort to terminal patients, but a lack of funding means spaces are limited, writes Karin Goodwin .

"A hospice," says Sister Rita Dawson, nurse and chief executive of the Sisters of Charity-run St Margaret of Scotland Hospice in Clydebank, "is for living in.