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BY DANIEL GAITAN | daniel@lifemattersmeia.org A growing movement is bringing peace and love to dying hospice patients across the globe. Threshold Choir boasts more than 240 groups with about 2,700 volunteers across North America, Europe and Asia. The nonprofit offers free beside vigils for men and women nearing death. “We’re death– and tear-phobic in our […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF This isn’t the first time Disney helped grant a dying patient’s wish. A terminally ill British man got to see “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” early, Disney CEO Robert Iger confirmed on Twitter. “On this Thanksgiving, we at Disney are grateful to be able to share The Rise of Skywalker […]
BY DANIEL GAITAN daniel@lifemattersmedia.org An Illinois police department is observing No-Shave November by raising funds for a hospice that cared for one of their own. Officer Mark Dahlem died February 5 while receiving comfort care at JourneyCare in Barrington from complications associated with brain cancer. Dahlem, 48, served the nearby Palatine Police Department for more […]
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Former President Jimmy Carter said his faith in God helped him become “completely at ease with death” while facing cancer. “I assumed, naturally, that I was going to die very quickly,” said Carter, referring to a brain cancer diagnosis in 2015, during a Sunday school service at Maranatha Baptist Church in […]
A Story Of Hope In The Darkness LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF Kimberly Dahlem never expected a series of headaches to change her family’s future. The week before Thanksgiving in 2017, her husband, Mark Dahlem, began complaining of excruciating headaches. “We thought it was just the hustle and bustle about the holiday,” Kimberly, 46, told Life Matters […]