Hospice: Chapter Analysis

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My overall impression of the chapters were I found most of the information to be comforting and gloomy, at the same time. The stories and the experiences people had to go through where heart-wrenching and tragic to read about, but the author puts a twist on how Hospice tries to provide comfort and relief to the individual who is dying and their families. I never thought about the services Hospice provides because I never personally experienced a close death, yet. Overall, I thought the book to be very insightful and useful information about how to handle death, which obviously is not an easy concept for most people. While reading the chapters I found a piece of advice I thought would be very beneficial for the future. Talking about death to

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