A caring force ... but hospice volunteers in increasingly short supply

Jim Chambers knows the value of hospice care. At 81, Chambers is in his 23rd year as a hospice volunteer with Woodhaven Volunteer and Special Support Services. One of the original founders of the non-profit organization that was formed in 1989,...

Hospice of the Plains honors volunteers with reception

STERLING — Providing physical, social, spiritual and emotional support services to the terminally ill and their families is what Hospice of the Plains is all about and vital to that mission are the organization's volunteers.

Children with sick parents need free support groups

In this day of outsized hospital costs, it is astounding that Portsmouth (Regional) Hospital offers no free support groups for children and young adults whose parents are sick and/or dying. I do not have children, but was trying to help a young person.

Dying St. Pete man says airline won't refund his ticket

Jerry Meekins says he is dying.

Claire Bidwell Smith: Recovering From Loss: Coping With Cancer at Age 14

I was 14 when both of my parents were diagnosed with cancer at the same time. Being an only child, the ensuing years of hospitals, surgeries and chemo treatments were lonely ones.