Mission Statement
Providing practical, emotional and spiritual support to individuals and their loved ones through the stages of dying, death and bereavement.
Hospice palliative care aims to make the last months of life comfortable, peaceful and dignified for patients and their caregivers by providing care, support, respite and advocacy. Our trained Hospice volunteers work as part of a caregiving team that could include community home nursing, doctors, hospital and facility staff, social workers and spiritual leaders.
We have so much to learn about dying from ancient traditions:
"What have you learned about dying from [Thich Nhat Hanh]?
There is dying in the sense of letting this body go, letting go of feelings, emotions, these things we call our identity, and practicing to let those go.
The trouble is, we don’t let ourselves die day by day. Instead, we carry ideas about each other and ourselves. ...
Letting go is a practice not only when you reach 90. It’s one of the highest practices. This can move you toward equanimity, a state of freedom, a form of peace. Waking up each day as a rebirth, now that is a practice."
"What have you learned about dying from [Thich Nhat Hanh]?
There is dying in the sense of letting this body go, letting go of feelings, emotions, these things we call our identity, and practicing to let those go.
The trouble is, we don’t let ourselves die day by day. Instead, we carry ideas about each other and ourselves. ...
Letting go is a practice not only when you reach 90. It’s one of the highest practices. This can move you toward equanimity, a state of freedom, a form of peace. Waking up each day as a rebirth, now that is a practice."
Thich Nhat Hanh’s final mindfulness lesson: how to die peacefully
"Letting go is also the practice of letting in, letting your teacher be alive in you," says a senior disciple of the celebrity Buddhist monk and author.
vox.com
If the prospect of Valentine’s Day is getting you down, try “reframing” the day with a little help from this article.
Grief and Valentine's Day
Grief and Valentine's Day traditionally don't mix very well. Here's one way to reframe the day for anyone missing a loved one on February 14th.
whatsyourgrief.com
“Working in the frontlines of raw humanity” requires really good intentional self-care. This palliative care doc has learned this well.
Dark days in Palliative Care – The importance of intentional self-care
I love my job as a Palliative Care doctor. There is nothing that I look forward to more on a Monday morning than meeting with our team, solving problems and helping to relieve suffering in our pati…
thehealthygp.com
Always good to be reminded about how to deal with your expressions of grief in the online world of social media ...
Please read this before you post another RIP on social media.
There is a hierarchy of grief.
upworthy.com
This one is always good to remember when someone you know has died.
Upworthy: Because we’re all part of the same story.
Stories that connect us and sometimes even change the world.
upworthy.com
Time for a Frank O. Infusion- He says there are really only two questions that matter at the end of life and we can answer them now.
End Well
Frank Ostaseski reminds us that two questions really matter at the end of our lives. Why wait until then to address them?