Penny Smith

I'm very, very passionate about advocating for hospice and educating on the end of life. It's my area of expertise. I'm literally a subject matter expert by virtue of being a certified hospice nurse. We're dealing with people at what is arguably the worst time in their life, but it's also the most sacred. Death is really unique to the person who's dying.

I'm very, very passionate about advocating for hospice and educating on the end of life. It's my area of expertise. I'm literally a subject matter expert by virtue of being a certified hospice nurse. We're dealing with people at what is arguably the worst time in their life, but it's also the most sacred. Death is really unique to the person who's dying.

I'm very, very passionate about advocating for hospice and educating on the end of life. It's my area of expertise. I'm literally a subject matter expert by virtue of being a certified hospice nurse. We're dealing with people at what is arguably the worst time in their life, but it's also the most sacred. Death is really unique to the person who's dying.

There is a feeling when a person dies, something in the room, energetically. There's a shift that you can sense. I don't see it or hear it, I just feel it, like there's just something different in the room. Their good outcome is for that person to live. Our good outcome is for the person to die comfortably. Hospice doesn't add more days to your life, it adds more life to your days.

There is a feeling when a person dies, something in the room, energetically. There's a shift that you can sense. I don't see it or hear it, I just feel it, like there's just something different in the room. Their good outcome is for that person to live. Our good outcome is for the person to die comfortably. Hospice doesn't add more days to your life, it adds more life to your days.

There is a feeling when a person dies, something in the room, energetically. There's a shift that you can sense. I don't see it or hear it, I just feel it, like there's just something different in the room. Their good outcome is for that person to live. Our good outcome is for the person to die comfortably. Hospice doesn't add more days to your life, it adds more life to your days.

Because I've had patients who came on to hospice who didn't know that they were dying. I don't like euphemisms. I don't like to say passed away, gone to heaven. I've seen how confusing that can be for people. We use the words death, dying, died. I prefer now to just live my life and not worry about death and dying. So in a way, working with people who were dying taught me more about living.

Because I've had patients who came on to hospice who didn't know that they were dying. I don't like euphemisms. I don't like to say passed away, gone to heaven. I've seen how confusing that can be for people. We use the words death, dying, died. I prefer now to just live my life and not worry about death and dying. So in a way, working with people who were dying taught me more about living.

Because I've had patients who came on to hospice who didn't know that they were dying. I don't like euphemisms. I don't like to say passed away, gone to heaven. I've seen how confusing that can be for people. We use the words death, dying, died. I prefer now to just live my life and not worry about death and dying. So in a way, working with people who were dying taught me more about living.

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I think it's fear. It's fear because it's unknown. We used to die in our homes with our family back in the old days. And then medical technology advanced to the point where we could keep people alive longer, albeit most of the time they were in the hospital living longer. And then when they died, they were in the hospital. So we weren't really around death as much anymore.

I think it's fear. It's fear because it's unknown. We used to die in our homes with our family back in the old days. And then medical technology advanced to the point where we could keep people alive longer, albeit most of the time they were in the hospital living longer. And then when they died, they were in the hospital. So we weren't really around death as much anymore.

I think it's fear. It's fear because it's unknown. We used to die in our homes with our family back in the old days. And then medical technology advanced to the point where we could keep people alive longer, albeit most of the time they were in the hospital living longer. And then when they died, they were in the hospital. So we weren't really around death as much anymore.

And it became more unknown to us. You know, we also have a medical community that is taught how to cure people, how to make people live. So when they die, death is seen as a failure. So there's, you know, many different aspects to why we're kind of afraid of death. But what I've learned being a hospice nurse and watching, you know, thousands of people dying and

And it became more unknown to us. You know, we also have a medical community that is taught how to cure people, how to make people live. So when they die, death is seen as a failure. So there's, you know, many different aspects to why we're kind of afraid of death. But what I've learned being a hospice nurse and watching, you know, thousands of people dying and

And it became more unknown to us. You know, we also have a medical community that is taught how to cure people, how to make people live. So when they die, death is seen as a failure. So there's, you know, many different aspects to why we're kind of afraid of death. But what I've learned being a hospice nurse and watching, you know, thousands of people dying and

how they interact with their families and how you can have a good death experience or a bad death experience is that the best way to have the good death experience is to be able to talk about it, to acknowledge it, to know what's happening. People are afraid when they see somebody going through the dying process.

how they interact with their families and how you can have a good death experience or a bad death experience is that the best way to have the good death experience is to be able to talk about it, to acknowledge it, to know what's happening. People are afraid when they see somebody going through the dying process.