假如没理解错的话,你是拿绝症病人与宗教信仰来讨论。你了解医学方面的临终关怀(Hospice Care)吗?许多病人,即使原来没有宗教信仰,都会寻求牧師的祝福与安慰,这与接受现代医学的治疗没有冲突。
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Who Are the Members of the Hospice Team?
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Chaplain
Provides patient and family with spiritual counseling to address questions of hope, meaning, despair, fear of death, relationship with divine, need for forgiveness, loss of life purpose
Assists patient and family in sustaining their religious practice and in drawing upon religious/spiritual beliefs to cope with illness, dying, and grief
Ensures that patient and family religious or spiritual beliefs and practices are respected by the hospice team (e.g. dietary restrictions, rituals to be observed at the time of death, disposition of the body)
Serves as a liaison with the patient/family faith community and clergy
May conduct funeral and memorial services for patients and families as requested
Provides hospice staff with spiritual care and counseling