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Featured Article: Hospice

St Christopher's Hospice in London, widely considered the first modern hospice

Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms, while attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of their life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering, providing an alternative to therapies focused on life-prolonging measures that may be arduous, likely to cause more symptoms, or are not aligned with a person's goals. The development of such end of life care balances the efforts of modern medicine to find ways to prolong life, regardless of the quality of life.

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-title=Sari|
+title=Hospice|
-image_name=Ravi Varma-Instruments.jpg|
+image_name=St. Christopher's Hospice.jpg|
-image_desc=Painting by [[Raja Ravi Varma]] that depicts several traditional styles of draping the sari|
+image_desc=St Christopher's Hospice in [[London]], widely considered the first modern hospice|
-text=A '''sari''' or '''saree''' is the traditional female garment in [[India]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Nepal]], and [[Sri Lanka]]. A sari is a very long strip of unstitched [[cloth]], ranging from four to nine meters in length, which can be draped in various styles. The most common style is for the sari to be wrapped around the [[waist]], with one end then draped over the shoulder baring the midriff. The history of Indian clothing traces the sari back to the [[Indus valley civilization]], which flourished from 2800-1800 B.C.E. It is generally accepted that wrapped sari-like garments, shawls, and veils have been worn by Indian women in their current form for hundreds of years.
+text='''Hospice''' care is a type of [[health care]] that focuses on the [[palliative care|palliation]] of a [[Terminal illness|terminally ill]] patient's pain and symptoms, while attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of their life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering, providing an alternative to therapies focused on life-prolonging measures that may be arduous, likely to cause more symptoms, or are not aligned with a person's goals. The development of such end of life care balances the efforts of modern medicine to find ways to prolong life, regardless of the quality of life. }}
-Saris are woven with one plain end (the end that is concealed inside the wrap), two long decorative borders running the length of the sari, and a one- to three- foot section at the other end which continues and elaborates the length-wise decoration. This end is called the ''pallu''; it is the part thrown over the shoulder in the Nivi style of draping. In past times, all saris were hand woven of [[silk]] or [[cotton]], and represented a considerable investment of time or money. Sometimes warp and weft threads were tie-dyed and then woven, creating ''[[ikat]]'' patterns, or threads of different colors were woven into the base fabric in patterns; an ornamented border, an elaborate ''pallu,'' and often, small repeated accents were woven in the cloth itself. For fancy saris, these patterns could be woven with gold or silver thread (''[[zari]]'' work). Sometimes the saris were further decorated, after weaving, with various sorts of embroidery, pearls and precious stones. Modern saris are increasingly woven on mechanical looms and made of artificial fibers, but [[weaving|hand-woven]] saris are still popular for weddings and other grand social occasions.}}