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Law Practice

May 2, 2012

Don’t wait: You only have this moment in which to be of service

Life lessons learned from my hospice work.

Timothy A. Tosta

Arent Fox LLP

Email: tim.tosta@arentfox.com

In our training, through the Zen Hospice Project, to serve at the bedside of the dying at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital, we are given the Five Precepts Of Hospice Care:

One: Bring your whole self to the bedside. You owe it to those you serve and yourself.

Two: Welcome everything, push away nothing. You cannot choose the circumstances under which you may be asked to serve another.

Three: Find a place of rest in the middle of thin...

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