#HOSPICE · 7 ASKS

AITA for letting my patient's estranged son see him in his final hours against his daughter's wishes?

I've volunteered at hospice for three years now. Walter (81M) was in my care rotation for about five months, and his daughter Denise (52F) had been… Read more

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39 votes · 9 comments · 3 options

AITA for telling a dying man's daughters what he confided to me before he passed?

I have volunteered at hospice for six years now, and I sat with a patient (81M) named Walter for the last three weeks of his life. His wife had… Read more

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35 votes · 12 comments · 3 options

AITA for telling my dying patient the truth about his prognosis after his daughter begged me not to?

I've volunteered in hospice for nine years now, sitting with patients in their last weeks so they aren't alone. Last month I was assigned to a man,… Read more

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42 votes · 9 comments · 2 options

AITA for telling a hospice patient the truth about his prognosis after his daughter begged me not to?

I have been a hospice volunteer for six years now, though I spent thirty years before that as an ICU nurse, so I know how to sit with hard truths.… Read more

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235 votes · 11 comments · 3 options

AITA for keeping the rosary a dying patient pressed into my hands against policy?

I've volunteered in hospice for 11 years, retired RN, and for the last 14 months I sat with a widower named Walter (78M) most Tuesdays and Thursdays… Read more

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204 votes · 3 comments · 3 options

Should I leave hospice work, choir, and the garden I've tended for 34 years to move in with my son?

I am seventy one years old and I have lived in this house for thirty four years. My husband and I planted an entire garden together before he passed,… Read more

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226 votes · 14 comments · 2 options

AITA for missing my daughter's first Thanksgiving to sit with a dying hospice patient?

I am 68 and have volunteered at hospice for six years since retiring from nursing. This month I sat with Walter (91M), a widower with no children,… Read more

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271 votes · 10 comments · 3 options