Hospice care, for patients, families, and workers alike, is a healing process that helps people overcome the pain that results from the death of a loved one, and work through the grief that follows that death. Typically, hospice care enters a person life at a seemingly natural period when the dying patient is in her elderly years.
Utah man, Derek Sorenson, however, made the decision, with the child's mother, to put his son in hospice care hours after he was born. Deyton, the baby boy, was born with a fatal heart condition and died after only six days. Sorenson worked for a hospice organization at the time, but the death of his son inspired him to start his own hospice organization, Dixie Hospice Care.
Sorenson says that "helping other people helps me heal." Read more of his inspiring story here: Infant's Death Inspires Hospice Care.
