Nobody goes into hospice with a meaningful chance of survival. Your body is already failing. Hospice eases the often incredible pain of your body failing in ter

Nobody goes into hospice with a meaningful chance of survival. Your body is already failing. Hospice eases the often incredible pain of your body failing in terribly undignifying ways. Certainly the morphine doesn't do anything to increase your longevity, but it's not doing much to hasten your already-imminent demise.