The government has today announced a multimillion-pound initiative to help the dying to stay at home.
The plan, which is intended to give people more control over where they end their lives, will provide 24-hour rapid response teams of nurses to help people caring for relatives at home.
One in five people die at home, but two-thirds say it is where they would prefer to end their life.
If you believe Alan Johnson on this morning's Today programme, some media outlets have decided against covering the topic because it is "too depressing".
"The most important objective is to ensure that people's individual needs, their priorities, their preferences for end of life care, are identified, they are documented, they are reviewed, they are respected and acted upon wherever possible," he said.
The inspiration for the investment lies with the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity's Delivering Choice programme, on which the national strategy is modelled.
The Marie Curie programme, which has six projects across the country, has helped to double the number of people able to die at home by offering support, particularly in the final weeks and days of life.
The most advanced pilot has been in Lincolnshire, and this video shows the impact the programme has had there.
Research into the Marie Curie initiative by the King's Fund concluded that home care could be supplied at no extra cost to the NHS.
In which case: should the government be spending more than the £286m it had budgeted over three years?
