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California Fires Undid Hospice Patients' Last Wish For Peaceful Death

Karna Dawson helped lead the effort to make sure patients getting care from Hospice by the Bay were safely evacuated during the North Bay wildfires. (April Dembosky)
Karna Dawson helped lead the effort to make sure patients getting care from Hospice by the Bay were safely evacuated during the North Bay wildfires. (April Dembosky)

Among the thousands of people uprooted and displaced by the Northern California wildfires were scores of hospice patients — very ill people whose final wish was to die peacefully at home.

As April Dembosky of KQED reports, for some, the fires made that dying wish impossible.

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