I am a hospice chaplain serving as the Spiritual Care Coordinator of a hospice & home health agency. I consider it a privilege to be able to spend some of the most intimate times of a person's life with them.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Oregon's Physician-Assisted Suicide

There are worse things than death. In most cases, through organization such as hospice and palliative care, both symptoms and pain can be managed. However, there are cases in which the pain can not be managed. In these cases, I believe we are more humane with our animals than we are with each other. So I have attached this link from the State of Oregon and I welcome your thoughts and opinions on such a controversial topic.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Grief fades within 6 months for many widows

Grief is not linear but cyclic, it comes to us in waves and articles such as this one can be very misleading because it looks at a single point in time rather than the process of grieving itself.