A Hospice Counsellors Perspective
My 20 years of work at Heart House Hospice provided me with vast experiences with death and dying. Living through
personal losses of close family members created a need for me to reflect deeper on my work as a counsellor. Helping others
understand their grief is very different from coping with my own loss. As Shakespeare said in Much Ado
About Nothing, “Everyone can master grief, but he that has it.”
Over 1600 individuals on my caseload have died in the past decade. I was present with some of
them when they took their last breath. With every individual, I go through the same mental checklist
to ensure that the family had an opportunity to say a final goodbye and explaining what to expect in
the last moments.
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