Not only do people typically want to die at home, but their loved ones would prefer to see them die in their own bed, rather than in a hospital.
According to a new study published in JAMA, people report much greater satisfaction with end-of-life care for a relative if it took place at home or in a hospice facility, rather than in an intensive care unit.
For the study, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute interviewed 1,146 members of families that had lost somebody to either advanced lung cancer or colorectal cancer in the past year.
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