One Foot in Heaven Author:Heidi Telpner People die every day. While most people in America die in a hospital, many families choose hospice for end-of-life care. Death, as experienced by hospice nurses, can be beautiful, peaceful, humorous, touching, tragic, disturbing and even other-worldly. Hospice nurses act as midwife to dying people every day. Death transforms not just the patient... more » and family but the hospice nurse as well. Hopefully this book will transform the reader s notions of death and dying and give new meaning to the words hospice care for the terminally ill.« less