“The process of dying is like preparing to go on a trip,” says Robert Cemillan, VITAS chaplain. “When you are planning a trip, the preparation is what determines how the trip will be and how it will end. For this trip, you’re only allowed memories and love in your...
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If someone has entered into a hospice, his health outlook is likely grim. Hospice care is a program designed to make the process of dying as comfortable as possible for patients and their families.
Although death has remained a constant over the course of history, the process of dying has changed for humans as well ascompanion animals. Medical advances have changed death, frequently, from a sudden event into an often long journey with many events. We have increased the life span of our...
2 I was only 22 years old and wasn’t qualified to do much, but I could be a “friendly visitor” to patients. I could be a companion on the journey toward death and new life—a safe friend with out bias, solely present to offer consola- tion and support.3 When someone is ...
Colleagues working with Jerral over the years have been fascinated by his passion in this work and the flow with peaceful joy and presence in the moment as he participates in the vigil process of a dying friend or loved one. Hospice Volunteers used to ask "Where did you learn these things...
So, why not better equip myself to comfort those who are in the process of dying and help them live more fully until they depart. One of my very best friends is a hospice nurse and it is clearly a job not for the faint-hearted. We talk almost every day to catch up, even if it...
"When people know they are dying, they shed all their roles, social and professional. When people can no longer shoulder the roles of say, a boss or a homemaker, they express their deepest thoughts and feelings," sh...
People are often more afraid of the process of dying than of death itself. Many pro euthanasia campaigning groups are hoping that doctors and relatives will soon win legal rights to kill people, or to help them commit suicide. That’s if they are close to death, and suffering physically,...
Some of the participants expressed this renewed vision of life as a greater appreciation for the little things in life, such as waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night, or as a process of learning to turn the fear of death into a desire to live. Some teachers came to ...