]> http://caringcommunity.org/taxonomy/view/or/56 en http://caringcommunity.org/node/view/465 <p><strong>The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live</strong> is a new book by Dr. Scott Eberle, Medical Director, Hospice of Petaluma. &#8220;This book is itself a rite of passage. Extraordinary insights shared by two remarkable people, one dying, the other the inner life and decisions of the physician and friend attending this fine fellow preparing to head into death. This is the best work of its sort I have come across. There are so many levels, so many books in this book that it might well become a teaching text in many classrooms.&#8221; <em>Stephen Levine, author of Who Dies?, Healing into Life and Death, and A Year to Live</em></p> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:21:05 -0700 http://caringcommunity.org/hospiceofpetaluma <p>Rooted in community, <strong>Hospice of Petaluma</strong> has been providing quality, compassionate hospice care and grief services to individuals and families facing life-threatening illness or the death of a loved one since 1977. Hospice of Petaluma and our sister program, Memorial Hospice, are a service of the St. Joseph Health System, a Ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. Patients and families receive interdisciplinary patient care with individualized attention to nursing, psychosocial, spiritual and practical needs that may arise at the end of life. Hospice services are provided by professional staff and specially trained caregiver and grief support volunteers. Volunteer trainings are held in the spring and fall with both daytime and evening classes.</p> Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:26:12 -0800 http://caringcommunity.org/links/howtohelpfinalweeks A guide prepared by the American College of Physicians, Internal Medicine, Doctors for Adults. Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:07:21 -0700