Hospice Discussion

A place to seek resources about death, dying and hospice. And an opportunity to share feelings and stories that may help others through the most trying of all of human experiences.

Paths of Heart is now available in audiobook format. The book has been narrated, edited, and post-processed and has been uploaded to the national Library of Congress’ Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Books in that library are available nation-wide through the mail FOR FREE to those who are […]

Paths of Heart Audiobook!

22 May, 2019 in Book Discussion / Hospice Discussion / Writing Discussion by Richard Haverlack

The holidays are doubly difficult for those grieving a loss. First, there is the loss itself. And that is no better at any particular season. But at the holidays, there is added grief — loss of sharing the joy of the holidays: the rituals that cannot be the same; the […]

Coping with Grief at the Holidays

10 Dec, 2018 in Hospice Discussion by Richard Haverlack

The times they are a changing… So sang Bob Dylan four decades ago and so it still goes. The word “hospice” is slowly being replaced in the popular lexicon by a more general, and (unlike “hospice”) not yet misunderstood, term: palliative care. The dictionary defines “palliative” as: (of a medicine […]

Palliative Care

28 Apr, 2018 in Hospice Discussion by Richard Haverlack