Confronting Death with Pets, Music and Good Hair

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December 31, 2017 a project of ServiceSpace Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. - Muhammad Ali - Confronting Death with Pets, Music and Good Hair What can you do for someone who has less than three months to live? Those who volunteer with Dover Park Hospice (DPH) come face to face with this question on a regular basis. Sounds grim, but it's not. The volunteers provide music, massage services, food and playdates with pets for the patients to enjoy, spreading happiness with a smile, a song, a touch. It doesn't take much, and yet it means a lot to the patients. { read more } Be The Change Like a smile, happiness is infectious. See if you can bring joy to someone today, with a smile, a warm comment, a song, or a touch of your sympathetic hand. Change #2: Bring joy to the patients of Dover Park Hospice or a hospice near you by volunteering,paying visits to the sick, reading them books, or in any way you can. Change #3: Take your pet to visit with someone who may be suffering, ill, or lonely. Find a way to make them feel someone cares with warmth and flowers. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Disease of Being Busy The Benefits of Learning to Be Kind to Yourself Bhutan's Dark Secret to Happiness Seven Ways to Help High Schoolers Find Purpose How Nature Resets Our Minds and Bodies What Matters Most? 10 Tips for Effective Communication Ten Counterproductive Behaviors of Well-Intentioned People DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,584 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More