Kareem’s Version

If the issues of communication, timing and truth-telling in all the stages of life continue to present some of the most thoughtful challenges in a clinician's practice, this is especially true in end of life care. Michael Lipson's narrative of a child's death and his subsequent dual reflections on truth and the eternal fill me with a burning question. Why wait for "Sister Death" to arrive to live with this kind of presence-of-being? This expansion "beyond?" Wouldn't it deepen and enrich our lives to live with this awareness or capacity right now? -Therese Schroeder-Sheker, The Chalice of Repose Project www.chaliceofrepose.org