This article hopes to be an aid to doctors, nurses, social workers and other carers involved with, or having close contact with, Jewish people and families who are facing terminal illness and approaching death. It approaches this from an orthodox point of view as this is the basis for the laws, customs and practice which carers may encounter.
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