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What if hospice services weren’t just for the dying?
by Michael Ollove
My hospice nurse’s horse
The mare pulled the meniscus in her knee. This left my nurse with a tough choice.
by Karl Travis
Looking back at my ministry from hospice care
My feet hurt. To distract myself, I'm recalling my professional failures.
Discovering sabbath in my mother’s hospice room
She was a staunch observer of sabbath. It took her death for me to appreciate why.
by J. Dana Trent
Living in the gray
A hospice chaplain writes about facing pain without flinching.
by Jera Brown
Bioethics and the good-enough death
Dying poses hard questions about autonomy.
by Sarah Moses
Whether we're dying or living with grief, there are faithful ways to do so. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre points us in the right direction.
by Heidi Haverkamp
Not every ailment can be fixed—or should be. Atul Gawande thinks we need to talk about this.
by LaVonne Neff
The American hospice movement is thriving. But its growth has tended to neglect African Americans.
by Amy Frykholm
The emphasis on patients' rights and autonomy has been a weak remedy for medicalized death.