Hospice care for a dying person and his family

Abstract

The people we admit to St. Christopher's Hospice have already traveled a lonely journey. Many have been deprived of all real communication and have suffered long isolation. Each member of the staff shares in welcoming these people into the community of the hospice, greeting them by name, relieving their symptoms, and listening to their fears. We know that control of distress can give a dying person and his family time to make a creative achievement from a part of life that we see not as an end but as a beginning.