{"id":8026,"date":"2009-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/16\/facing-death-with-dignity-and-reverence\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T12:00:00","slug":"facing-death-with-dignity-and-reverence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/16\/facing-death-with-dignity-and-reverence\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Death With Dignity and Reverence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/09\/health\/09sisters.html?em=&#038;pagewanted=all\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PITTSFORD, N.Y., USA, July 9, 2009: The Sisters of St. Joseph, an order of Roman Catholic women, have created a retirement community in this Rochester suburb which lends itself to successful aging and a gentle death. Factors include a large social network, intellectual stimulation, continued engagement in life and spiritual beliefs, as well as health care guided by the principles of palliative and hospice care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a time to die and a way to do that with reverence,&#8221; said Sister Mary Lou, 56, a former nurse. &#8220;Hospitals should not be meccas for dying. Dying belongs at home, in the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of the 150 residents live in &#8220;independent living&#8221; apartments, with proper equipment and adjustments. These are the sisters who have given up paying jobs and shared apartments because of encroaching infirmity. Forty sisters live in assisted-living studios, and another 40 in the nursing home and Alzheimer&#8217;s unit. A shared retirement fund covers lodging and medical care, along with the Social Security payments of the retired and the salaries of those still working.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robert McCann, who provides primary care for most of the sisters, says &#8220;they have better deaths than any I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.nytimes.com PITTSFORD, N.Y., USA, July 9, 2009: The Sisters of St. Joseph, an order of Roman Catholic women, have,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}