Death is still a taboo subject in the U.S. Violence we live with daily.
Hospice care is a relatively new phenomenon in America, having come into existence as a result of people like Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, with her "Four Stages of Grieving."
Evergreen Hospice on the Eastside is a pleasant facility with a small number of rooms. When a very close relative had been given only a few more weeks to live, we had her moved her, as Group Health Insurance only allowed for hospice either here or at Bailey Boushay in Seattle. There is a beautiful rose garden that can be seen from all the rooms.
I suppose the workers in a facility such as this become inured to death and dying, but nothing quite prepared me for the attitude of one person, who, when asked if she could request the persons in the next room to be a little quieter, rudely and flatly, said, "No."
She then added, "No, they're not making anything but normal noise." We hand been hearing over a period of perhaps half an hour a dog barking and people talking so that we could hear them very clearly in the next room.
In general, the staff went about their business as if they were working in an insurance or sales office, oblivious to both the visitors and the dying.
One of the pastors from the adjacent medical facility was wonderful. I'll never forget how sensitive and gracious she was to us. A female Japanese volunteer was quite gracious to us.
If you have a choice, though, I think you might look around for a different hospice facility where the personnel is more sensitively attuned to the needs of the dying for quiet, privacy, and respect.
http://www.yelp.com/user_details_review_search?q=evergreen&userid=zjZOOgIRvFnGAO0QQ5FNQA
Hospice care is a relatively new phenomenon in America, having come into existence as a result of people like Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, with her "Four Stages of Grieving."
Evergreen Hospice on the Eastside is a pleasant facility with a small number of rooms. When a very close relative had been given only a few more weeks to live, we had her moved her, as Group Health Insurance only allowed for hospice either here or at Bailey Boushay in Seattle. There is a beautiful rose garden that can be seen from all the rooms.
I suppose the workers in a facility such as this become inured to death and dying, but nothing quite prepared me for the attitude of one person, who, when asked if she could request the persons in the next room to be a little quieter, rudely and flatly, said, "No."
She then added, "No, they're not making anything but normal noise." We hand been hearing over a period of perhaps half an hour a dog barking and people talking so that we could hear them very clearly in the next room.
In general, the staff went about their business as if they were working in an insurance or sales office, oblivious to both the visitors and the dying.
One of the pastors from the adjacent medical facility was wonderful. I'll never forget how sensitive and gracious she was to us. A female Japanese volunteer was quite gracious to us.
If you have a choice, though, I think you might look around for a different hospice facility where the personnel is more sensitively attuned to the needs of the dying for quiet, privacy, and respect.
http://www.yelp.com/user_details_review_search?q=evergreen&userid=zjZOOgIRvFnGAO0QQ5FNQA
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