ABSTRACT
As helping professionals working in end-of-life care, we are deeply affected by loss in our personal as well as professional lives. In fact, many of us have chosen to work in end-of-life care as a result of our own experiences with dying, trauma, and loss. Whether we are physicians, chaplains, nurses, social workers, psychologists, physical therapists, or occupational therapists, we have certain values and ethics, sociocultural influences, personal life histories and memories, preconceived notions and assumptions, which we inescapably bring to our work (Katz & Genevay, 1987; Katz & Genevay, 2002).
