Hospice and the Aging Adult
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Death is inevitable. Most people will pay lip service to that fact, but what can we do when we find that our parents are entering their last six months of life? How do we face our grief while helping our parents to leave this life behind? Death as I see it is one event on the eternal path that God started me on in 1963. He breathed life into me, I carry His Spirit within me by His breath and my grasp of the work of Jesus, I am Spirit filled. Dying only bridges the gap between my current self and my perfected self, perfected in resurrection as exemplified by Jesus, the first resurrected. Death is neither friend nor foe, death has died eternally and has no power. This understanding helps me to treat elders as eternal saints, closer to God's doorway. They have the best seat in the house for examining their own life already lived in view of the next life that soon will be.
Different cultures may have different views of death...