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How We Die. VHS, 90 minutes, National Hospice Organization, 1995, $50.00.
This video uses a discussion group format with three highly respected physicians to discuss issues of death, dying and palliative care, with particular attention to how those issues impact physicians. The moderator and call-in questioners raise issues including dignified death; how doctors feel about shifting focus from cure to comfort; the physician's role in team-approach care; how to community with patients about dying; spirituality; and attitudes about dying. B712950
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Improving Communication and Strengthening Relationships. The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care
http://www.ippcweb.org/module5.asp
I Want to Die at Home. VHS, 46 minutes, Filmakers Library, Inc., $195.00.
Divorced and living apart from her grown children, Elizabeth discovered she had terminal cancer. Her wish was to die in the familiar surrounding of home, close to the people she loved. Loyal friends and family shared in her care and steadfastly kept her company throughout this critical period. They alternated shifts so that she would never be without a comforter. Elizabeth's choice to die at home helped mitigate the pain of her untimely death for her survivors. They gave Elizabeth the gift of time and love when she needed it most.
124 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212/808-4980
I'm Really Going to Miss Me: Coping with Terminal Illness. VHS, 59 minutes, Films for the Humanities, $129.00.
How do people approach life when the end is near? Taking a personal rather than clinical approach, this sensitive documentary records the intimate thoughts and feelings of Bobbie Martin, diagnosed with leukemia; Jeff Swinerton, with lymphatic cancer; Paul Starr, with AIDS; and Chennelle Jaramillo, with Batten Disease, a degenerative neuromuscular disorder. Hopes, fears, regrets, the reactions of others, and preparations for the end are all candidly discussed, offering a penetrating look at what life is really like for those who don't have long to live.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
Tel: 800/257-5126
In Your Hands. James Vanden Bosch. VHS, 19 minutes, Terra Nova Films, $79.00.
Helen Hayes died at the age of 93. On her own terms. Peacefully, in her own home, with no tubes or machines attached, but with loved ones surrounding her... All made possible because she planned ahead. Before she died, Miss Hayes talked about why planning ahead is so important in an exquisitely produced video. In it she describes in clear, cogent language the frequently misunderstood instruments of Durable Power of Attorney, Medical Power of Attorney, Living Wills and Trusts.
9848 S. Winchester Avenue
Chicago, IL 60643, United States
Tel: 800/779-8491
Inner Views of Grief. Juanita Johnson. VHS, 30 minutes, Fanlight Productions, 1995, $195.00.
In this compelling video, five young adults from ages 14 to 26 discuss their reactions to the sudden, sometimes violent death of a parent, sibling or friend. These insightful young women and men talk about what helped them at the time of death, how family relationships changed, how they have coped with their feelings, and the ways they have commemorated the deceased. An excellent teaching tool for mental health professionals, teachers, school crisis teams, hospice workers, clergy, funeral directors, parents and bereaved individuals of all ages. ISBN 1-57295-161-3
47 Halifax Street
Boston, MA 02130, United States
Tel: 800/275-5126
Is This Life Worth Living?. VHS, 30 minutes, Filmakers Library, Inc., $195.00.
This documentary explores the ethical issues involved in sustaining life of severely brain damaged or comatose patients. It explores the plight of a woman who fought a legal battle for permission to remove her husband's feeding after he lapsed into a vegetative state. We also meet a family who are emotionally and financially exhausted from caring for their 12-year-old son who has been on life-support since birth. Our society is reluctantly recognizing that a mentally competent person should be allowed to refuse life-lengthening measures. Who should make that decision when the individual is mentally incompetent?
124 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212/808-4980
Journey of Hope 4-video series. VHS, 30 minutes ea., King's College Dr. John D. Morgan, $119.95.
Award-winning TV documentary created to help adults teach children about death sensitively, caringly, and honestly. The series examines the effects of a childhood loss on the cognitive and emotional functions; explains how to find that "teachable moment;" looks at how funerals can help children; examines the important role of siblings, explains the importance of memorial events, books, journals, and photos; raises the important questions that must be asked when a child or teen is at risk of suicide; and examines the impact of childhood loss through violence or alcohol abuse.
The Dying Child - 30 minutes
Examines the issues facing they dying child, his/her parents and siblings, and the support systems available, including the hospice movement.
The Bereaved Child - 30 minutes
Focuses on children and the "forgotten grievers" and the danger of not responding appropriately to those who lose someone close to them at an early age. The second half of this program examines children who are bereaved through violence.
Death Education - 30 minutes
Examines the way parents and teachers can work together to educate children about death and the grief process. The second half of this program is dedicated to the issues surrounding suicide, particularly teen suicide.
Quest for Meaning - 30 minutes
Examines the way children view death and how they and their families find meaning in death.
Video: (Canadian) $39.95 each; $119.95 set
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London/Ontario N6A 2M3 , Canada
Tel: 519/432-7946
Letting Go: A Hospice Journey. VHS, 90 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1996, $149.00.
For terminally ill patients and their families, hospice can provide an opportunity to find comfort, companionship, and peace in the weeks, days, hours, and moments before death. Taking an intimate look at three patients: an eight-year-old boy with an incurable brain disease, a 46-year-old woman with lung cancer, and a 62-year-old man with an inoperable brain tumor-this program shows how hospice care helps them cope with fear and pain in the final stages of their lives, and prepares loved ones for their imminent loss. In addition to extensive footage of the hospice patients and their families, the program sheds light on the decision-making process of the doctors, nurses, chaplains, social workers, and volunteers involved in the hospice. APW6284
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton,, NJ 08543-2053
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Leukemia. VHS, 19 minutes, Films for the Humanities, 1992, $129.00.
This program explains how this cancer spreads through the body. It distinguishes between acute and chronic leukemia; covers the history of leukemia treatments from chemotherapy through the combination of chemotherapy and radiation, to bone marrow transplants and new devices and techniques for diagnosing and treating the illness; explains that more than half of today's young leukemia patients will be cured; and shows how a patient copes with chronic leukemia. BKT7753
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton,, NJ 08545-2053, United States
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Like Rembrandt Draperies - A Portrait of Cathy Tingle. 
VHS, Lisa Kaplan and Marcy Rosenbaum, Phd, Publishers for Lifeworks Videos (lisa_kaplan@hotmail.com), 2002, $149.00.
This hour-long videotape documents the life of Cathy Tingle, a woman who lived with endometrial cancer and adenocarcinoma for 10 years. The video, designed to raise issues about health communication, shows interviews with her oncologist, friends and family and with Cathy herself.
A detailed discussion guide accompanies the video and provides specific questions for each of the key themes in the film. The guide describes various ways to use the video (e.g. large group, small group, as a stimulus for discussion or reflective writing) and tips for facilitating discussion and encouraging participation. The videotape and discussion questions are suitable for medial students, residents, faculty and community practioners.
The video and guide received at 3-star rating from EPERC's educational materials reviewers. The cost is $149 plus $5 shipping and handling.
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Lexington, KY 40508, United States
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Living with Dying. VHS, 90 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $129.00.
Death, which sooner or later comes to all, is treated as a strangely taboo subject in America. In this program, Bill Moyers describes the search for new ways of thinking-and talking-about dying. Forgoing the usual reluctance that most Americans show toward speaking about death, patients and medical professionals alike come forward to examine the end of life with honesty, courage, and even humor, demonstrating that dying can be an incredibly rich experience for both the terminally ill and their loved ones.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NM 08543-2053
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Managing Pain, Managing Death: Disguised Euthanasia. Streaming, 29 minutes, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, $129.00.
To decrease the suffering of terminally ill patient, some doctors routinely prescribe strong painkillers-medications that, in effect, actually hasten the patient's death. What distinguishes such treatment from physician-assisted suicide? This program discusses legislative initiatives designed to protect patients from "disguised euthanasia"-and addresses the volatile question of whether such laws are a threat to the professional judgment of doctors. Experts include professor David Orenlicher, former counsel to the AMA; Dr. Zeke Emmanuel, of the NIH's Dept. of Clinical Bioethics, and Yale Univ.'s Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
Tel: 800/257-5126
Medicine at the Crossroads: Life Support. Jamse Vanden Bosch. VHS, 55 minutes, Terra Nova Films, 1992, $95.00.
Societies differ sharply in how they regard health care near the end of life. This video looks at these differences in societies. Life Support will give you a fascinating and first hand look at how societal and cultural mores shape the approach to health care at life's end.
9848 S. Winchester Avenue
Chicago, IL 60643, United States
Tel: 800/779-8491
Mortal Coil, Voices from the Hospice. Written and performed by Lester Thomas Shane. Directed by Devon Schwartz. panimage@adelphia.net. VHS, 60 Minutes, A Pan:Image Production; ISBN 0-9664698-1-X, 1997, $59.95.
This video is recommended for any health care professional who would like to have a better understanding of the wide variety of feelings and emotions that hospice patients and families experience. It could be used in any setting to demonstrate experiences of hospice patients and their loved ones.
Pan: Image, Inc.
17236 Hampton Blvd.
Boca Raton, FL 33496-3013, United States
Tel: 877/264-6243
On Wings of Song-Music Therapy at the End of Life. VHS, 43 minutes, Filmakers Library, $295.00.
Featuring Deborah Salmon's work (a music therapist with the terminally ill since 1984) in the Palliative Care Unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital, On Wings of Song shows how a skilled music therapist may help a diverse group of patients find spiritual and emotional nourishment during their last days. By calling upon the knowledge of a wide range of musical instruments and styles, a music therapist is able to forge a strong emotional connection with a patient. One tired, elderly patient is awakened from her lethargy and surprises us with the vigor of her song. A younger woman finds pleasure in improvising lyrics to a familiar tune. Adult children gather at their mother'' bedside to sing favorite hymns. This poignant and inspiring film captures moments of humor, celebration and joy made possible through music.
124 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212/808-4980
Patient Self-Determination. VHS, 25 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $226.00.
This program defines types of advance directives and explores related ethical issues. Objections to advance directives are presented.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NM 20543-2053
Tel: 800/257-5126
Pioneers of Hospice: Changing the Face of Dying. Madison-Deane Initiative. Resources for Quality End of Life Care
To order a DVD or VHS online visit www.pioneersofhospice.org or call +1 (866) 293-8200
Portraits of Grief. VHS, 24 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1994, $89.95.
This program is a collection of deeply personal interviews and relates them to the different stages of the grieving process: disbelief, sadness, loneliness, depression, fear, anger, guilt, and exhaustion. The viewer sees how grief is a process that can lead to understanding and acceptance. BYF8501
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08545, United States
Tel: 800/275-5126
Preventing Under nutrition: Dehydration & Invasive Treatment in the Geriatric Patient. VHS, 17 minutes, Geriatric Video Productions, 1995, $245.00.
Discusses preventative strategies with patients who begin to show limited fluid or nutritional intake and difficulty swallowing. Focuses on early detection and ongoing individualized assessment, and guides you in early intervention techniques to avoid the use of intravenous fluids, nasogastric or gastrostomy tubes.
P.O. Box 1757
Shavertown, PA 18708, United States
Tel: 717/829-1095
Pull Up Three Chairs. Cynthia X. Pan, MD and Diane E. Meier, MD / videographers: Lisa Hirsh and Deborah Reiff. VHS, 2002.
VHS Video-Interviewing multidisciplinary team members consisting of fellows, residents, and a nurse practitioner on their professional and personal experiences and reflections rotating through palliative care consult service.
Learning Objectives
To highlight the impact of rotating through a palliative care consult service on the learner.
To demonstrate the importance of working within an interdisciplinary team.
To create an opportunity for learners and trainees to reflect upon their medical practice.
Access the video at the CAPC website: http://www.capcmssm.org
Relieving Pain and Other Symptoms. The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care
To order: http://www.ippcweb.org/module2.asp
Responding to Suffering and Bereavement. The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care
To order/ More info: http://www.ippcweb.org/module4.asp
Rose and Zelda. VHS, 20 minutes, Video Press, 1996, $100.00.
Every day Zelda comes to visit her mother Rose who has just moved into a nursing home. In a series of interviews, Rose and Zelda express their acceptance of dying as a natural end to life. Debra Wertheimer, MD participates in the discussion, showing support and acceptance of their decisions.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
100 Penn Street, Suite 133
Baltimore, MD 21201-1082, United States
Tel: 800/328-7450
Saying Goodbye: Grief Counseling. VHS, 15 minutes, Fanlight Productions, $145.00.
Bethesda Hospital's grief counseling program works with physicians to treat the emotional as well as physiological aftermath of perinatal loss. Through interview with an obstetrician, a staff development instructor, a nurse who is the perinatal grief director, and a family who lost a baby, this video outlines the components of a comprehensive care program, including individual counseling, support groups, memorial services, and encouragement for the entire family to spend time with their baby. ISBN 1-57295-102-8; CR-102
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Boston,, MA 02130, United States
Tel: 800/937-4113
Some Babies Die. VHS, 55 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $195.00.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross narrates this powerfully moving documentary on the grief of stillbirth and neonatal death. Focusing on a family coping with the death of a newborn, they undergo a unique counseling process, under the guidance of a skilled and sensitive medical team, in which they are encouraged to create memories of the child and work through and resolve their grief over its death
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
Tel: 800/257-5126
Spirituality in Palliative Care. Video and Facilitator’s Guide, 21 minutes.
Doreen Westera, MscN, Med
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Memorial University
ST Johns, Canada A1B 3V6
Ph (709) 777-7259
Fax (709) 777-7037
Email: dwestera@mun.ca
Spiritual Care & Life Threatening Illness. Video and Facilitator’s Guide, 22 minutes.
Doreen Westera, MscN, Med
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Memorial University
ST Johns, Canada A1B 3V6
Ph (709) 777-7259
Fax (709) 777-7037
Email: dwestera@mun.ca
Spiritual Care in Gerontological Nursing. Video and Facilitator’s Guide. 19 Minutes
Doreen Westera, MscN, Med
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Memorial University
ST Johns, Canada A1B 3V6
Ph (709) 777-7259
Fax (709) 777-7037
Email: dwestera@mun.ca
The Biology of Death. VHS, 29 minutes, Films for the Humanities, $149.00.
This program covers the state of current knowledge about the biology of death and its causes, including the normal aging process. It also discusses legal and social response to death, and the role of society in investigating and regulating it. APW3420
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053, United States
Tel: 800/257-5126
The Doctor is In: Living Fully Until Death. Produced by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. VHS, 28 minutes, Distributed by Fanlight Productions (fanlight@tiac.net), $99.00.
This video features the personal stories of terminally ill patients. The strength of the video is in each person's sharing of thoughts, hopes, and fears experienced as they learn how to take control of what remains of their lives.
47 Halifax Street
Boston, MA 02130, United States
Tel: 800/937-4113
The Dying Patient: Treating Pain. VHS, 28 minutes, Fanlight Productions, $150.00.
What are the ethical issues involved when a terminally ill patient, experiencing uncontrollable pain, may be killed by the amount of drug needed to relieve suffering? In this provocative video, the committee discusses a hypothetical case in which a doctor faces such a dilemma.
The Eternal Now: A Celebration of Life. Pan Images panimage@adelphia.net. VHS, 15 minutes, Pan:Images, 1997.
This beautifully produced 15-minute videotape offers interviews with elderly residents of a retirement home. The 80-95 year olds discuss aging, loss, pain, dying and faith. While not directly related to palliative care, the video whould work well as an introduction to end-of-life issues related to aging.
ISBN #0-9664698-0-1
Pan: Image, Inc.
17236 Hampton Blvd.
Boca Raton, FL 33496-3013, United States
Tel: 877/264-6243
The Flow of Life: A Healing Forum for Successful Closure in Hospice & Palliative Care $60.00
This is a therapeutic "transitional ritual" which provides a family forum for honoring a terminally ill person either while he/she is alive or as a memorial service after the death. The primary function of the honoring ceremony is to engage patients and families in a collective life review which deepens meaning and helps ease them toward successful closure. The model is structured enough to contain the essential elements, but leaves plenty of space for the unique contributions of each family. The manual provides background information, readings, and guidelines for facilitators. The CD, entitled "In the Flow of Life", includes verbal guidelines for facilitators, original reflections, and music. Some parts of the manual and CD are also in Spanish. The "Flow of Life Video" includes inspirational visuals, music, teaching screens, and segments from an actual honoring ceremony.
Ordering information: http://www.annemilligan.com
If you do not choose to order with a credit card by using the above link, you can also order by mail. Send $60 per set (Manual, CD & Video) plus $3.50 shipping & handling to:
Anne Milligan
PO Box 22824
Louisville, KY 40252
Re: Flow of Life order
 The Man Who Learned to Fall - Dr. Balfour Mount project
The Man Who Learned to Fall is a feature documentary about a gifted writer and sought after teacher who celebrates the wonder of life even as he is slowly dying of a fatal neuromuscular condition. At the age of 35, Philip Simmons learned that he had ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Married, with two young children and a promising career as an English Professor and writer, he was told that he had less than five years to live.
Filmed in the foothills of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, this intimate portrait of Phil and his family captures the witty eloquence and poetic grace of a dying man and his heroic journey. As his muscles deteriorate and his body becomes increasingly paralyzed, Philip Simmons continues to wrestle joy from heartbreak again and again and again at each stage of his ongoing losses.
Although his illness eventually forced him to give up his University teaching, he continued to write and in August, 2000, he published Learning to Fall: the Blessings of an Imperfect Life, a book described by Rebecca Pepper Sinkler, former editor of The New York Times Book Review, as a literary gem enlightening us about the deepest mysteries of life.
We meet Phil a year after the publication of his book which his publisher, Bantam Books feels "has the potential to be a spiritual classic". Although, he eloquently described ALS as emptying me out one teaspoon at a time, he also proclaimed that a fuller consciousness of my own mortality has been my best guide to being more fully alive. Phil Simmons outlived the medical predictions, and lived with his illness for almost ten years.
By: Garry Beitel
E-mail: garrybeitel@videotron.ca
Website: www.themanwholearnedtofall.com
The Vanishing Line. Maren Monsen, MD. VHS, 52 minutes, Fanlight Productions, 1998, $225.00.
In this outstanding film, physician/filmmaker Maren Monsen offers an intensely personal look at this modern medical dilemma and its timeless implications, as she takes on a lyrical and heartfelt quest to discover an "art of dying" in a world that taught her well to prolong life, but offered few prescriptions for treating death. As seen on the Public Television series, P.O.V.
4196 Washington St., Ste. 2
Boston, MA 02131, United States
Tel: 800/937-4113
The Way We Die. Jonathan Mednick. VHS, 25 minutes, Fanlight Production, 1995, $195.00.
Through interviews with doctors, patients, and family members, and through intimate and movingly filmed interactions between medical personnel and their terminally ill patients, this video encourages health professionals to work with their patients to devise treatment plans in accordance with their needs and values, and to attend to the larger issue of what illness means for a particular patient and family. This is a valuable tool for continuing education programs, and for schools of nursing, medicine and allied health. ISBN 1-57295-154-0; CR-154
47 Halifax Street
Boston, MA 02130, United States
Tel: 800/937-4113
Those Who Stay Behind: When a Family Member is Dying. NC Crossroads. VHS, 31 minutes, Fanlight Productions: ISSN 1094-2351, 2000, $195.00.
When patients and their families enter the hospital, they are like newcomers to a foreign country. Sights, smells, language - the basic culture of the hospital is usually unfamiliar territory. Yet within this context many families must make decisions about how and when to help a patient die. Faced with this monumental responsibility they often feel bewildered and overwhelmed. Going through the dying of a family member can be a very isolating experience. People often wish for a guide as they navigate the healthcare system, medical decisions, and their own grief process. This video consists of interviews with five people who have recently lost a family member. These personal narratives offer viewers an opportunity to identify with others, and thereby decrease their own sense of isolation. Those Who Stay Behind can be used with many audiences: families; bereavement groups; church and community groups exploring end-of-life issues; and volunteers and staff in hospice and hospitals; as well as classes in medical education. A Family Handbook accompanies the video. In the handbook you will find a synopsis of the video; resources; and information the following topic: Learning Bad News, Caretaking Decisions, Talking to Others, Advance Directives and Later Decisions, Taking Care of Each Other, Letting Go and Grieving.
4196 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02131, United States
Tel: 800/937-4113
To Choose No Harm: ethical decision-making at the end of life. Produced by Fred Simon. VHS, 46 minutes, Fanlight Productions, $195.00.
The situations that healthcare workers confront when caring for dying patients can present the most ethically challenging problems that they will ever face. yet these complex, intertwined and frequently "messy" realities of day-to-day decision-making are often overshadowed in media debates over "assisted suicide". This powerful new documentary allows us to be present at meeting in which two different healthcare teams must resolve conflicts between the wishes of their patients and the patients' families, and their own beliefs and clinical judgements. The situation of a young man with AIDS raises compelling issues about futility of care, as well as conflicts between patient autonomy and responsibility to others. In the case of an elderly woman with terminal cancer, the staff confront disagreements between the patient and her husband over her wish to decline CPR and return home. The situation is further complicated when her insurance company refuses to pay for additional hospitalization. Each case is discussed by a panel of caregivers, administrators and ethicists. This is an invaluable resource for discussions of nursing, medicine, ethics and healthcare policy.
4196 Washington Street
Suite 2
Boston, MA 02130
Tel: 800/937-4113
To Live Until I Die. WTTW National Productions. VHS, 60 minutes, WTTW National Productions, 2001, $19.95.
Six remarkable people. All have terminal illnesses, yet all are squarely facing what's ahead with humor, insight, anger and honesty. And all are determined to play an active role in determining how they are going to die. Today in America, most people do not have "good deaths" - they die alone and in pain. The people you'll meet in this Emmy Award-winning program have chosen to spend their last days differently. Through the stories of these six uncommonly open people, To Live Until I Die offers a moving and informative introduction to hospice and palliative care for health workers, hospice volunteers or hospice patients and their families.
5400 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625, United States
Tel: 800/237-0011
Understanding Advanced Directives. VHS English, 8 minutes
This video explores in simple terms the advanced directive options available to patients. Directed to patients and residents, it discusses Living Wills, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, the types of treatments which can be accepted or rejected via an Advanced Directive. Directly guides patients and families in formulation of an Advanced Directive. Produced by: Interlink Video Productions, Inc.
http://www.pyramidmedia.com/item.php3?list=1438&title_id=1438
Voices from the Lived World of Illness: Advanced Cancer Center for Communication in Medicine®
www.communicationinmedicine.org
When All Is Said and Done: An Introduction to the Family Meeting. VHS, 195, Aquarius Productions, Inc., 1996, $195.00.
This video is devoted to the terminally ill and their family members, demonstrating ways in which dying can become a time for forgiveness, letting go and connectedness. The viewer has the opportunity to witness several family meetings between family members and the individuals who are dying. During this sacred time family members share openly issues that have rarely been spoken of before and say goodbye to each other. The stories shared are powerful examples of encouragement and support.
5 Powderhouse Lane
P.O. Box 1159
Sherborn, MA 02770, United States
Tel: 508/651-2963
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