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Clearing the Path: On Death, Loss, and Grief
ISBN: 9780197636909
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making Palliative Medicine for Elderly People;

"I was flown in by the Health Committee of the small town. They wanted me to meet with a family in distress. They felt the family, who was well loved in their town, was in turmoil while facing the impending death of the father. Right off the plane, I was brought to the patients private hospital room. The father of the family, Benny, aged 64, was dying of cancer. I was told that neither his family nor he recognized that he was dying. The battle was already lost, according to the health professionals. Yet the family wanted to keep fighting for his life in every possible way"--