Apr 08 2009
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“ Hope is a precious ‘commodity’ that should never be taken away, but needs to be redefined throughout the course of any illness. … Toward the end of life, we need to ask ‘hope’ for what? Hope for companionship, comfort, dignity, preferences, etc., rather than for unrealizable ‘immortality’ at the expense of those other more attainable goals.
— Malene S. Davis, president and CEO of Capital Hospice, to a Washington Post moderated conversation about the illusion of lost hope and end-of-life issues.
