‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’: hospice workers share 12 lessons about life and death

Hospice and end-of-life workers discuss what they’ve learned from their work and patients in their last moments “Hospice” can be a loaded term.

Some see it as synonymous with death and “giving up”, as Courtney, a full-time hospice nurse practitioner in Missouri, puts it. But Courtney, who asked that her last name be withheld for privacy reasons, doesn’t see it that way. “Hospice is giving someone a gift,” she says of her patients, who have typically received a…