Guests: Karen Martin, Anne Heinold, Ron MessnerShow notes:• What is palliative care?• How is hospice and palliative care initiated?• What is the difference between hospice and palliative care?• Palliative care availability is more concentrated in larger urban areas.• What is hospice care?• How and where is hospice care administered?• Most insurances cover both palliative and hospice care.• Spiritual services provided with hospice care.• Use of volunteers in hospice care.• What hospice is not. It is not 24 hour care.• No support for euthanasia.• Emphasis on comfort, not hastening death.• Decisions are not black and white.• Experiences of joy as a believer dies; seeing the sting of death removed.• Depressing experiences of seeing an unbeliever die.

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