title: Helen's Family.
abstract: A nurse learns it's not inappropriate to celebrate life as death approaches.
authors.affiliation: Cyndy Irvine is an RN who writes from her home in rural Wisconsin. Contact author: cyndyirvine@gmail.com. Reflections is coordinated by Madeleine Mysko, MA, RN: mmysko@comcast.net. Illustration by Gingermoth.
authors.forename: Cyndy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Irvine
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations