Hospice Matters by Larry Patten

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Over My Dead Body, Part 1
What is better, for the living, for the grieving . . .
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Methadone: No Way!
Anything but that . . .
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Keep My Trap Shut
Talk, talk, talk . . .
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March 2024

Perfect?
From birth to death, we crave perfection . . .
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Dog Rules During Grief
I first wrote this in the early spring of 2020...
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Hospice Disappointments
Yeah, even I (no surprise) made mistakes . . .
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Siblings: A Death Downplayed?
Oh, it's only my brother or sister . . .
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February 2024

Suffering
When the truth may also be a lie
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Sudden Death
Seemingly as quick as lightning . . .
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On Using the Largest and Smallest of Words
And I'm not talking . . . Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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Hospice Isn't the Opposite of Hope
Though Red did say, "Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
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January 2024

Hospice: The International Language
Don't we all speak dying, death, and grief?
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