Something to Think About

When someone you love no longer responds, it can feel frightening. Let me show you the simple, comforting care that still matters in the final days before death.

Those of us who work in end-of-life care walk beside people and families during one of the most intimate times of life. Because of the emotional nature of this work,...

So often I have walked into a room when family is standing at the side of the room, watching. Watching their special person dying...

As end of life approaches, people start looking at their life; what they’ve accomplished, not done, who they have touched, interacted with, and the relationships they have or have not built...

There is nothing medical about brushing your teeth, rinsing your mouth or moistening the inside of your mouth. We do it all the time. Why would it be suddenly considered a...

Unfortunately, children die. We are born, we experience, and then we die. That's the name of this game called life...

In the early days of hospice no one told us how long we could stay with the patient and families. We simply made it up as we went along. Our goal...

Immediately following the death I clean the body (offer family, if they want, to help or not), tidy the room, turn off overhead lights and have a small lamp on....

This has led me to think about what any of us can do for an acquaintance who has a serious illness or is caring for someone who has a serious...