GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Grand Rapids is a great place to live.

Evidently, it's a good place to die as well.

According to a study conducted by Andrew MacPherson and Ravi B. Parikh, advisers at the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, and published by the Washington Post, Grand Rapids is one of the three Michigan cities that are among the best to die in the United States.

Petoskey and St. Joseph were also listed among the best places to spend your final days. As part of the study, the two researchers evaluated 300 American cities on seven factors such as hospice use and number of deaths in the hospital.

The crux of the study centered on hospice care and how it is underutilized throughout the United States.

"Most people enroll in hospice fewer than 20 days before death, despite a Medicare benefit that allows patients to stay for up to six months," MacPherson and Parikh noted.

That doesn't appear to be the case in West Michigan. And considering its biggest city has a designated area known as the Medical Mile, it shouldn't be much of surprise.

The study also notes that physicians in each geographic area are likely to have similar approaches to health care, which likely explains why St. Joseph and even Petoskey in Northern Michigan are also on the list.

Las Vegas, Miami and New York City are among the worst places to die, according to the study.