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Saturday, September 30, 2023
What Was Life Like Before? (Death and Terminal Illness Aren’t the Only Things We Deny)
In
the television program Virgin River, Melinda Monroe (“Mel”) has left her
Nurse Practitioner position in Los Angeles and moved into the wilds of California’s
Northstate (very like the communities I served for over two decades). Mel’s decision follows the death of her husband Mark, and others around
her and in his family especially demonstrate the kinds of behaviors chaplains, counselors, social workers, and other hospice staff members refer to
kindly as “family dynamics.”
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