By Salma Khalik, Health Correspondent

THE Government is set to play a bigger role in end-of-life issues and in the care of the dying.

It will expand hospice care, rope nursing homes into caring for the dying and ramp up the number of doctors and nurses trained in palliative care.

It will also make it easier for people to make Advance Medical Directives or living wills, so doctors know what to do when these individuals become terminally ill.

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