Some recent articles focusing on hospice, the end of life, and grief matters:

The Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro, Tennessee) published an article about coping with grief during the holidays that’s chock full of helpful information. Alive Hospice Grief Counselor Pam Quaintance was quoted in this article.

Associated Press writer Katie Nelson told of the role hospice care has played since it arrived in the United States 35 years ago. The first hospice in the U.S., Connecticut Hospice, was founded in 1974. (Did you know? Alive Hospice was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, just one year later.)

New York Times columnist Jane E. Brody wrote about the many ways hospice caregivers provide comfort to the terminally ill and the difference it has made for several patients and families.

And last but not least, a heartwarming profile of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, hospice volunteer Franny Kilgas.