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most important thing is to be there to listen and to touch people,” Abell said. “It’s important that the patients never be alone so that they can express all they need to before they die to achieve peace, and the Hospice is trying very hard to do those things.”
The volunteers also receive some important benefits from the Hospice program. “I expect to get at least as much as I give in return,” Abell said. “Hospice work taps the root of your own humanity, and helps you deal with your own dying.”
The opportunity that Hospice work provides for the volunteers to gain an understanding of death and a better understanding of themselves in the process is one of the reasons that Sid Gottlieb of Boston became involved.
“I am drawn to working with the patients on a one to one basis because I sense that the last few months of life is a period of truth,” Gottlieb said. “It’s inspiring to think that I might be able to help during that time.”
Gottlieb said that the training he had completed was prepatory, but the real learning will begin when he is actually with a patient. “I was eager to get the training so that I can be as helpful as I can, and I’m interested in getting on the job,” Gottlieb said.
Through personal experience with handling deaths in his own family, Gottlieb became dissatisfied with the convention approach to death. “Hospice is a more dignified, caring way to have the death process take place,” Gottlieb said. “Through Hospice, you let your own caring instincts out so that you can
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