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Site title: End of life education resources for families and professionals

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When my husband of 62 years died, I struggled with learning how to be a “me” instead of a “we.”  He had done the finances and house and yard maintenance. I did the everyday running of the house - cooking and other day to day tasks. We generally watched the TV shows and movies that he was interested in. Although I prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner, it was gea...


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I was a hospice nurse for a hospice that was just getting started. This was in 1985, when all hospices in the U.S. were just getting started. Part of our goal was to be with the patient and their family at the moment of death. To do that, we had an on-call, 24/7 system. 

Now the thing about being on call in hospice is that most of the calls don...


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If we end of life caregivers are providing care for those approaching death, why are we not with them during the moments they are actually dying?

Everything we do leads up to that moment of death –&...


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The life cycle. We are born, we experience, and then we die.

What I find interesting is that the beginning and the ending are similar but reversed.

There are two ways to be born, vaginally or by cesarean section. With a C-section, one minute you are floating in a warm, quiet place and the next you are in a cold, loud, uncomfortable ...


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When I was 17, a junior in high school, I worked on weekends as a nurse's aide in a small midwestern hospital. One day the head nurse told me to go sit with a patient and tell her when she was dead.

Talk about being scared! The only previous experience I had with death was seeing my grandfather in a dark, scary funeral home. I was 14 and had been to...


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