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Hospice articles

Below are the best articles we could find on Hospice.

Hospice care focuses on reducing pain and suffering at the end of life, offering support and compassion to terminally ill patients and their loved ones. A hospice care team addresses social, psychological, and spiritual needs, in addition to the physical. As an alternative to prioritizing the extension of life at all costs, hospice allows healthcare professionals and volunteers to aid in a more peaceful transition toward death.

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When Is the Right Time for Hospice Care?

Hospice is less about what we think modern medicine should do and more about finding a small sense of serenity in one’s final moments.

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Death Doulas Provide Support, Comfort and a New Option for the Dying and Their Families

Death doulas, as they are also known, help someone at the end of their life with dying, just like birth doulas help at the beginning of life with the birthing process.

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Practicing G.R.A.C.E.: How to Bring Compassion into Your Interactions with Others

My hope is that the G.R.A.C.E. model will help you to actualize compassion in your own life and that the impact of this will ripple out to benefit the people with whom you interact each day as well as countless others.

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What Death Teaches About Life: An Interview with Frank Ostaseski

Frank Ostaseski, an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and pioneer in end-of-life care, has accompanied over 1,000 people through their dying process.

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How Death Doulas Ease the Final Transition

End-of-life caregiving is an ancient practice that’s now re-emerging in the death positivity movement, which urges a shift in thinking about death as natural and not traumatic.

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Terminal Options for the Irreversibly Ill

My Feb. 5 column, “A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit,” prompted a deluge of information and requests for information on how people too sick to reap meaningful pleasure from life might be able to control their death.

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Alternatives for the Final Disposition

Though I wince at the redundancy, funeral “pre-planning” is a phenomenon receiving increased attention, and a growing number of Web-based guides tell how to go about it. As www.funerals.org puts it: “Funeral planning starts at home.

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A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit

Studies of dying patients who seek a hastened death have shown that their reasons often go beyond physical ones like intractable pain or emotional ones like feeling hopeless.

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Learning to Serve the Dying

End-of-life doulas provide a new type of caregiving to patients and families.

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What Is the Nature of Sound Healing? An Interview with Silvia Nakkach, Part 2

Part Two of an interview with musician and composer Silvia Nakkach. She discusses how sound and music can bring about healing and why this is applicable in end-of-life situations.

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