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Chris’s Story: Keeping A Promise

Posted on January 31, 2019July 19, 2021 by Valerie Lovelace

Chris Trider is a retired electrician in Leeds and a Maine Death with Dignity volunteer. He told the Death with Dignity National Center this story in January 2019. * My wife, Karen, passed away from liver cancer in October 2018. When doctors discovered the cancer several months earlier,CONTINUE READING »

Why I Volunteer

Posted on October 11, 2018July 19, 2021 by Valerie Lovelace

by Karen Hinson, volunteer petition circulator, Town of Machias, Maine * I learned death was part of life at an early age. The doctors, nurses, and dentists in my family talked about blood and guts at the dinner table. As a hospice volunteer I later learned of theCONTINUE READING »

Donna Wiegle: “The Choice About How Things Go”

Posted on July 9, 2018July 19, 2021 by Valerie Lovelace

Donna Wiegle is the founder of Eldercare Outreach of Swan's Island. She lives in Swan's Island. She told us this story, which first appeared at Death with Dignity National Center's website, in June 2018. * I survived my first bout with cancer nearly 30 years ago. Then, inCONTINUE READING »