Can someone explain what hospice is/does?

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12. Yes, good point

You will not be kicked out after 8 months. Eating ice cream with teddy grahams might hasten the process, I don't know, but I'd rather die eating ice cream with teddy grahams than, say, broccoli.

If you went 3 years in hospice I don't know what the recertification would be like, but they definitely can't put an expiration date on anything. Hell, my oncologist wouldn't give me an expiration date, how can hospice be expected to? But what they look for is the fact that you're near the end of a terminal condition. In my case, it's considered terminal, and I've chosen not to fight it anymore (used up all the good chemo, what's left has nasty side effects giving me no quality of life). Will I be dead in six months? Some days I think I'll be dead before the weekend, other days I think I'll live a year or more. No one really knows.