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Patients with ESRD experience a high degree of symptom burden—physical symptom burden akin to patients with advanced cancer, along with emotional and spiritual suffering. In addition, ESRD patients on maintenance dialysis have the highest levels of medicalization at the end of life, surpassing what is experienced by their counterparts with other advanced chronic illnesses (