A Racial Gap in Attitudes Toward Hospice Care

Dateline Buffalo: Twice already, Narseary and Vernal Harris have watched a son die. The first time — Paul, at 26 — was agonizing and frenzied, his body tethered to a machine meant to keep him alive as his sickle cell anemia  progressed. When the same illness ravaged Solomon, at 33, the Harrises reluctantly turned to hospice in the hope that his last days might somehow be less harrowing than his brother’s.

This is a fine article about hospice use in the black community. about why it is less frequently sought, and why blacks distrust the health care system.