Terminally ill need more help to cope with death

The terminally ill need more psychological care, hospice doctors say.

"It's time for the Chinese to embrace the concept of 'natural death', which is already widely recognized in the West. What these people really need is considerate nursing care rather than stressful and fruitless suffering," said Guo Haoming, deputy director of Chaoyangmen Hospice.

Many people in China still have the idea that entering a hospice means waiting for death. That's why many still refuse to give up the search for medical treatment even after they have exhausted all possibilities, she said.