Zen Hospice

I’m honored to stand witness to those intimate, vulnerable moments.

A nurse reflects on her meaningful work as a hospice volunteer.

A hospice volunteer reflects on life’s beauty after a startling question from a man with a terminal illness.

Sometimes dying is full of confusion, fear, regret, denial, secrets, and chaos. Grief and conflict swirl through the person dying as well as through their family and friends. Decades of …

Food can nourish and nurture, even at the end of life.

Being with people at the end of life as a volunteer caregiver with Zen Hospice Project for the past 15 months has felt like finding home.

We are all humans together somewhere on the continuum of living and dying.

“…it is a unique and rare privilege to be in the presence of death, to face this ultimate reality of life right in front of me.”

Every death is different. A hospice caregiver shares insights about just how different people’s responses to death can be.

“Adrian” was a rocker from way back, born to be wild.