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November-December 2017

Building Virtues in Life Leads to Good Death

Building Virtues in Life Leads to 'Good Death'

Lessons from the Elephants

Lessons from the Elephants

We Must Earn Confidence in End-of-Life Comfort Care

We Must Earn Confidence in End-of-Life Comfort Care

Reflections on Life Death and Grabbing the Gusto

Reflections on Life, Death And Grabbing the Gusto

Holding Life and Death in Dynamic Tension

Listen with Compassion Trust the Patient

Listen with Compassion, Trust the Patient

Advance Care Planning Leads to Wished-For Care

Advance Care Planning Leads to Wished-For Care

Expanding Care to the Sick and Dying

Extend Healing of Hearts to the Healers Too

Extend Healing of Hearts to the Healers, Too

Guarding Charlie Gard

Guarding Charlie Gard

The Value of Palliative Care

The Chaplain's Role as Catalyst for 'Good Death'

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