To Love the Dying
Holly Lux-SullivanPeople think working in end-of-life care is depressing. Almost 20 years of doing so have taught me it's usually exactly the opposite: deeply life-affirming and full of joy as well as the bittersweet.
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Trusted end-of-life guide and longtime end-of-life spiritual care provider, grief counselor, greyhound lover, and Unitarian Universalist tree worshipper
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