title: Kareem's Version.
abstract: If the issues of communication, timing and truth-telling in all the stages of life continue to present some of the most thoughtful challenges in a clinician's practice, this is especially true in end of life care. Michael Lipson's narrative of a child's death and his subsequent dual reflections on truth and the eternal fill me with a burning question. Why wait for "Sister Death" to arrive to live with this kind of presence-of-being? This expansion "beyond?" Wouldn't it deepen and enrich our lives to live with this awareness or capacity right now? -Therese Schroeder-Sheker, The Chalice of Repose Project.
authors.affiliation: mlipson@bcn.net
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lipson
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000523:psychology; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013727:Terminal Care; D014342:Truth Disclosure