Hospice Backs Off From Operating Funeral Home
What were the operators of Hope Hospice of Southwest Florida thinking? A few weeks ago, they applied for a license to operate a funeral home. This was wrong on so many levels. But, at least for now, the attempt to combine end-of-life care with post life funeral arrangements is off.
Special kudos to Ron Panzer of the Hospice Patients Alliance and all of the other good folk who fought this bone-headed idea. Hope Hospice should leave its hope for a funeral home dead and buried.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 6:31 PM
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3 Comments:
Are the hospices in Florida really worse than elsewhere, or do we just for some reason hear more about them?
My mother's cousin died in a hospice on the east coast of Florida, and her funeral was there, too.
I thought it was weird, especially when we crowded into the reception area of the hospice (by the front doors and front desk) for coffee and cookies.
Eww. No, this isn't a good thing at all. Hospice is supposed to be about helping people live their lives as their lives come to an end. The funeral business is bad enough with people trying to wrangle as much money out of the berevied as possible, while they're not in a position to deal with this stuff. This smells like a money-making scheme to me.
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