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This is the sweetest thing! Read this heartwarming story: Nicola Coyle takes in terminally ill dogs from shelters and gives them the love they deserve at end of life. She fulfills "doggie bucket lists" such as ice cream at the beach, pub visits with steak...
Fun and inspiring! Musical and documentary unite to introduce The Coffin Club, a truly unique community organisation bringing free-spirited seniors together to construct and personalise their own low-cost coffins. Based in small town New Zealand, with over 60 active members, this group of inspirational elderly...
On her deathbed my grandmother spoke with her sister who had died decades before--there are so many of us with these stories! ~Susan http://www.post-gazette.com/aging-edge/aging-edge-reports/2018/07/02/End-of-life-dreams-visions-terminally-ill-hospice-patient-research-kerr/stories/201806280003...
Sometimes you mush do what you feel is right, regardless of the naysayers. "Our house filled with flowers and food and people. It must have been hard for many of my friends, most of them mothers, to walk to the crib in which our son lay....
On the first Monday of each month from 10:30am -12:00pm, trained volunteers Edie Mas and Rhondi Gleason will be offering help in Taking Steps: Planning for Critical Health Care Decisions -The Vermont Advance Directive for Health Care - Advance Care Planning Process at St. Mary's...
Movie of the week DVD available in the Hospice Library: *Truly Madly Deeply* staring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson. A moving, humorous and poignant film about grieving the loss of your partner. Highly recommended, with incredible performances! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubjQJQvpDyY...
Hidden Peace by Patty Dunn, Hospice Program Coordinator An EarlyCare client of ours recently died somewhat suddenly and unexpectedly. I will call her Lila. This client was my age, a mother, a seeker, full of curiosity and a longing to face this death-thing head on. As...