Frances Shani Parker's Blog – May 2009 Archive (1)

This death ritual is an excerpt from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes, which shares my insights and hospice volunteer experiences in Detroit nursing homes. In a chapter titled "Death Sentences," I relate the fascinating end-of-life journey of my hospice patient named Lelia. The afterlife is referred to as the Other Side of Through. Because Lelia had very little family support, the hospice chaplain organized her death ritual, which concluded in… Continue