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“The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Heart Goes Last

tags: death-and-dying, palliative-care

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“Grief ate at these doctors, distracting them from both their families and their patients. Many reported withdrawing from emotional involvement with their patients and that their patients had noticed they weren't fully present.”
― Danielle Ofri, What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

tags: death-and-dying, empathy, grief, medicine

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“The living have to live with it. You don’t. Theirs is the grief or the gladness of your death, theirs is the loss or gain of it. Theirs is the pain and the pleasure of memory.”
― Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

tags: death, death-and-dying, grieff

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“It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent

tags: aging, aging-advice, aging-gracefully, aging-well, aging-with-grace, death, death-and-dying, life-cycle

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“When I reflect on the stories of death supported by hospice care and contrast it with our story depicting an absence of support, I find myself dealing with envy and anger. I have channeled those emotions into this book with the hope that hearing our story might give someone else a chance to create a better ending to the life of a loved one.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent

tags: death, death-and-dying, death-of-a-loved-one, end-of-life, end-of-life-care, end-of-life-issues, hospice, hospice-care

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