Thank you for all you do. Hospice care has been human care in my experience. I haven't worked in this area, only been a bystander but it rather changed my outlook on death. I understand better the process of dying and the options available. And how yes, it's a sad thing for families to go through, but for the person actually doing the dying, (I might not have the right words, I know that deaths are unique as individuals, bear with me,) I guess I expected the process of dying and death to be awful and it really wasn't.

A big thank you to great hospice workers out there.

I have not thought deeply about my own mortality--I avoid it. At this stage of my agnostic atheism, death is scarier now than when I believed in an afterlife. I don't try to dissuade believers, as I want to let them have the comfort of their fantasy.

Yes, having had three young Deaf friends die prematurely put a very different slant in life.

My daughter is an RN and works in the hospice field. It's a little different for her, though; she doesn't work in a hospice facility per se, she goes to people's homes.

As a five year AML survivor I totally understand.

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Don't know if I could do what you do. Wrestling with my own mortality right now not sure if I could repeatedly face other's.

My mum worked for the elderly and the ones who were very ill and leaving in a box rather than moving home or up. Ialways thought that myself and that ill see maybe very old people when/if Ibecome very old but Idont want to now. my mum has become almost these older people ie 86 two heart attacks and Ican just tell its had a big impact on her and she really doesnt want to be in a home herself.

Thank you for what you do. I lost several people and we stayed home without hospice. Hugs.

And yes, watching changes everything.

I can imagine.

Hospice is the most caring part of health care. It's the place where health care becomes human caring. Thanks for doing what you do.

I hear you

That's scary. We had a neighbor when we lived in Kansas that their son ended up in hospice when he was about 10. He was born with hyperplastic left heart syndrome, and then had a stroke when they tried to fix it and just had problems all his life. He actually recovered and left hospice then. He passed when he was 19. Hospice work is tough, you have my thanks and admiration.

It never bothered me or had me considering my own mortality. I don't work in Hospice on a consistant basis so maybe that makes a huge difference. Thank you for doing such worthy work.

I worked at a Hospice for a couple of years. It was total opposite from my expectations. I thought these people would be sitting around feeling sorry for themselves (gloom and doom). However, I found them to be joyful and positive. They gave me so much more then I could ever give back and it taught me a lot.

I've had a couple clients with terminal diseases. But we're required to try to teach anyone under 18 communication skills until they die.

Something of an exercise in futility with a kid with total paralysis who is Deaf, or with a body that doesn't have a Neocortex to learn.

You're doing good work. My Dad went to hospice and I can't tell you how much I appreciate everything you do.