With the extensive treatment and hospitalization, financial burdens are added; little luxuries at first and necessities later on may not be afforded … - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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With the extensive treatment and hospitalization, financial burdens are added; little luxuries at first and necessities later on may not be afforded anymore. The immense sums that such treatments and hospitalizations cost in recent years have forced many patients to sell the only possessions they had; they were unable to keep a house which they built for their old age, unable to send a child through college, and unable perhaps to make many dreams come true.