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Originally Posted by blueash
Thank you for that thoughtful reply. I edited it down just to let you know, if you did not, that there now is pediatric hospice care available including one in Fort Myers Fl Pediatric Hospice Care I agree with your observation about the important role Dr. Kubler-Ross had in this conversation. (I don't know how to make an umlaut) |
Well, 500 TOTV members have looked at this thread, and no one has added anything to it. Something we don’t want to think about? Too uncomfortable? I don’t know….
No, I didn’t know about the pediatric Hospice facility in Fort Myers. But I do think back but thirty years—during our adult lives—and remember the struggle of a group of us to get the concept of Hospice recognized as useful and helpful in my part of rural NY. We volunteers were all field-based (that is, in people’s homes), and at first our “office” was an answering machine in the home of one of our members. We finally fund-raised enough to have an employee answer a phone, so that calls about a dying family member didn’t have to be messages left on an answering machine.
How far we’ve come in letting dying and death—integral parts of living and life—come out into the light. And though she was not alone, the work of Dr. Kübler-Ross really was the impetus in this happening.
(Hold down the Alt key while you press the letter “u” and then, after releasing the Alt key, press the letter “u” again. Poof!)