Last Wish: Stories to Inspire a Peaceful Passing (Updated Edition with New Hospice Story)

As a doctor at the end of a 24-hour shift in the intensive care unit, it's usually easy for me to fall asleep. Exhaustion hits me like a rock and it doesn't matter that the morning sun is pouring into my bedroom. After so many long hours of fighting for life and pushing back death, when I finally hit my bed and close my eyes, the next day arrives in an instant.

Except for that one day when I couldn't sleep no matter what I tried.

Saddened from seeing the familiar turmoil as my patients' famil...