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Selected Articles on Palliative Care
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, Searching for a Healing Place by Susan K. Jensen
November-December 2001, Vol. 3, No. 6, INNOVATIONS IN END-OF-LIFE CARE (An international journal of leaders in end-of-life care)
At 35 years old, the sound of fallen autumnal leaves swirling on the ground still makes me regress to being an 11-year-old child. I lost my mother on a dark, cold fall day at the age of 11, and as a motherless daughter the first sound I heard was the rustle of those damned dead leaves on the ground. It was such a lonely sound.
I was shielded by my family against many of the details surrounding my mother’s illness and death, and was herded through the rest of my childhood and adolescence. MORE
