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Longtime Palliative Care Chaplain Talks Life, Death, Healing (Guest Post)

We are grateful to be able to share a deep and rich reflection from a now retired palliative care chaplain. Katie Herman worked at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis from 1996 to 2012 and as a member of its Palliative Care Team immediately after it formed in 2003. Then from…

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Christa MelandNovember 9, 2020

Healing Stories and Storytelling Purposeful Living

How Pregnancy Losses Gave Way to Gratitude, Renewed Purpose

When my husband and I were ready to have a child, we both assumed that it would be easy for me to become pregnant, and that the following year, we’d have a baby in our arms. After nine months of trying, we got the news we were hoping for. We…

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Christa MelandOctober 24, 2020

Advance Care Directives

What I Learned Planning for the End

“Do you want us to buy you a burial plot?” The question from my parents caught me completely off-guard. I was in my 20s at the time—healthy, focused on my career, newly married, and looking forward to eventually having children. Dying and death were the furthest things from my mind.…

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Christa MelandOctober 16, 2020

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