The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Death should not be viewed as a medical failure but as a natural conclusion to life.” — Christine Cowgill Copy Share Image
“There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.” — Robert Martensen Copy Share Image
Going to Africa was being able to take my volunteering and my passion for hospice one step further. — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
I had graduated high school early, and my thought was to become a hospice nurse. — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
It is one thing to choose to go into a hospice; it's another thing to get on the air and tell everybody… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Hospice has brought such a light in my life. It is something I will be involved with until I need hospice myself. — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“Spending moments with another in earnest presence is one of the simple ways we can show unconditional love. It is the memories… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not… — Cicely Saunders Copy Share Image
What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Thousands do benefit from love, support and comfort in their final chapter: I watched my dad slip away without pain as Bob… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the… — Robert L. Wise Copy Share Image
“A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential… — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
“I do not come in saying, ‘I’m so sorry.’ Instead, it’s: ‘I’m the hospice nurse, and here’s what I have to offer… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“When I reflect on the stories of death supported by hospice care and contrast it with our story depicting an absence of… — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
“CAMPERS is a seven-step process you can use to improve your ability to provide inclusive, nonjudgmental care when you are planning, engaging… — Kimberly D. Acquaviva Copy Share Image
Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a… — Mary E. Hunt Copy Share Image
“To transport this way along bouncy mountain roads is not the way to die. Every woman deserves the simple dignity of dying… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
“If your organization is not formally committed to a policy of nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression or… — Kimberly D. Acquaviva Copy Share Image
We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“Where there were once several competing approaches to medicine, there is now only one that matters to most hospitals, insurers, and the… — Thomas Hager Copy Share Image
“I’d write and read and let myself, a little at a time, step down into myself- like a stairway down into a… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“But at least he’d died at home and not some hospice. Who in their right mind wanted to die among the dying?… — Sue Margolis Copy Share Image
“My encounter with desperation while witnessing the death of a precious child changed me, teaching me that although we will have sad… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“The bullet hit Lady right between her eyes, in the middle of her white star, exactly where we hoped it would. She… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace. — Harmon Killebrew Copy Share Image
Nowhere in Scripture do I read where we are to discuss hospice care with seniors so they're willing to get out of… — Jonathan Falwell Copy Share Image
“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live. — Eleanor Clift Copy Share Image
Being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I had expected. By all rights, I should have finished my time… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up,… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
“Hospice care? No, you must mean Frisbee game. Because there's no way my brother and I aren't outside right now playing Frisbee… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
As inspirationally tireless as hospice fundraisers are, these are services that desperately need sustainable central funding. This means addressing the social care… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a… — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
“Changing the way LGBTQ individuals with chronic or life-limiting illnesses are cared for requires a paradigm shift in the way we (collectively,… — Kimberly D. Acquaviva Copy Share Image
