http://www.thecheckoutline.org/advice/my-fathers-no-longer-talking-to-me/ Advice for Dying and Death - When Sympathy Isnt Enough Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/advice/my-fathers-no-longer-talking-to-me/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Jeanne Frye, RN Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:22:11 +0000 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/advice/my-fathers-no-longer-talking-to-me/#comment-2 Having been in the hospice field for 10 years now, I can agree wholeheartedly with your answer. The real difficulty is in learning to "just be there". Words are not needed right now, but touch is. To simply stand and do nothing is difficult but soooo important at these times. The dying always struggle with leaving us...We give them the gift of acceptance with our peaceful presence. Having been in the hospice field for 10 years now, I can agree wholeheartedly with your answer. The real difficulty is in learning to “just be there”. Words are not needed right now, but touch is. To simply stand and do nothing is difficult but soooo important at these times. The dying always struggle with leaving us…We give them the gift of acceptance with our peaceful presence.

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