"The Good News About Giving Bad News" by The Rev. Kate Braestrup (March 24, 2010)

The Reverend Kate Braestrup (Chaplain, Maine Warden Service, Lincolnville, Maine), author of "Here if You Need Me," described her participation with the Maine Warden Service. Her assistance at search and rescue missions, accidents, suicides, airplane crashes, etc. had often occured in the woods of Maine and provided a valuable service of communication and comfort. Reverend Braestrup discussed several key concepts instrumental in aiding the delivery of empathic notification of death to family members. Scott A. Syverud, M.D. (Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia) highlighted the value of chaplaincy services and especially in the present time of economic hardship.

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