Is hospice movement going beyond end-of-life care?

http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=18746

[Catholic Online] February 17, 2006--Families who have contacted the nonprofit Hospice Patients Alliance are raising important questions about hospice as a movement.

Although hospice’s stated mission remains that of providing compassionate and dignified care to people at the end of life, some are asking whether hospices are starting to go beyond that role by hastening death instead.