Knowing “who’s who” in your life might just save you from the hospice
Who will be sitting or standing next to me in my deathbed*? A surprising number of people don’t have a clear answer to this hypothetical question. And a good portion of those who think they have the answer, find out later in life that they had the wrong idea. I was hit with this very conundrum a few nights ago, when on an otherwise uneventful evening, my husband finished a phone call and shocked me with the news that one of his good friends that lives about 200 miles away from us, had a stroke, was found hours later by a neighbor, and was now semi-conscious and restrained to a hospital bed. With no wife, girlfriend or partner, no [...]