James Sexton

Like spend time with people that are dying.

They don't really, all their stuff is a great big pile of nothing.

All that they can talk about is the people that they love, the connections that they made, the experiences that they had that were beautiful or painful.

And you, when you're around them, you could have a lot of stuff going on in your day.

but I would do like a hospice visit.

And by the way, like as a hospice volunteer, you don't like sit and talk about, you know, how are you feeling about the fact you're dying?

Very rarely did anybody want to talk about the fact that they were dying.

That was just a, that was a reality they couldn't deny.

They're in a hospital bed in their living room a lot of the time.

They wanted to talk about their life.

They wanted to talk about what's going on with the Yankees.

They wanted to talk about other things.

They wanted to be alive.

And a lot of times what you do as a hospice volunteer is you just are there.

You're just of service.

You're like, I'll do the dishes.

I'll take out the trash.

I got to do the grocery shopping for you, whatever.

I just want to be of service.

You're dealing with this big thing.