What constitutes hospice? [View all]

We've been going over this the last ferw months. I no longer want to seek treatment (my current level of treatment gives me no quality of life).

Supposedly I want to enter "hospice". I'm only looking for palliative care, not curative. So doctors (including a palliative care doc) told me I just have to "say so". Did not have a good definition of what hospice was ("it means many things to many people&quot . However, other providers had no idea I had "entered hospice". I don't recall a form that was any "Hospice Application Form". I live in NH. Anyone got good examples of what hospice is for them and/or in their state?

Thanks

- Tab