A journalist who was shot in the eye by Minneapolis police while covering the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd has entered hospice care due to her injury, signalling that she is dying from her wounds. Linda Tirado, 42, “is at life’s end and receiving palliative care”, the National Press Club said in […]
Constance Glantz had been in a nursing home. In hospice care. She was 74. Whatever ailment had ushered her toward this inescapable brink, Constance’s death – as those whose business it is to care for the recently departed often say – had been expected. They call such cases “a ‘death of a patient is anticipated,’” […]
Jason Carter, former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson, gave an update on his grandfather’s health on Tuesday, saying that he’s “coming to the end.” “My grandfather is doing okay. He has been in hospice, as you know, for almost a year and a half now,” Jason Carter said at the 28th Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- Janet Epperson and her son Evan Vaughn share a birthday, but this year’s birthday celebration for them is different than recent years as it could be the last one they share together. When Vaughn was two years old, doctors discovered a brain tumor and other conditions that gave him an expected life […]
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A graduating senior from Cambridge High School wanted to give her grandfather, who is in hospice care, one last gift. He wanted to attend her graduation ceremony. Channel 2’s Berndt Petersen shares how they brought the ceremony to him. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Payton Williams says it’s one of […]
Recently, we wrote about what the actively dying phase looks like, which occurs during the last phase of life. This was thanks to the help of Hospice Nurse Julie, aka @hospicenursejulie, who educates about death and dying on TikTok. Hospice Nurse Julie / @hospicenursejulie Julie, whose viral video about the actively dying phase now has […]
Longtime fans of reptile enthusiast Brian Barczyk are heartbroken after the YouTuber posted a goodbye video as he enters hospice care. The owner of The Reptarium in Utica, Michigan, posted the 16-minute video titled “This is Goodbye,” on Friday after a nearly year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. Barczyk, 54, thanked those who visited his reptile […]
Dec. 23—MORGANTOWN — There’s a big brick building at 501 Van Voorhis Road—48, 000 square feet or so shaped like a giant H. The sign above the front door says “Friendship Manor.” Malene Davis calls it “The building God picked out.” You see, Davis has spent the last 30-plus years working in hospice care. These […]