The Hempfield United Methodist Church (UMC) Care Team will host a special event on Friday, March 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Hempfield UMC, 3050 Marietta Ave., Lancaster. The event, titled "What Matters in the End," is open to the public.
"What Matters in the End" will be an evening of fellowship and learning centered on the important, necessary, and often difficult family communications surrounding end-of-life care and choices. Discussing the subject with attendees will be a panel of local experts: a funeral director, doctor, and hospice liaison, as well as a Hempfield UMC pastor.
Topics to be covered include burial versus cremation, prepaying for funerals, personalizing a funeral, the importance of advance care planning (ACP), understanding CPR, breathing assistance options such as ventilators and BiPAPs, tube feeding, when to call hospice, services hospice provides, how hospice can help manage pain and other symptoms, and living well/dying well.
Families are encouraged to attend together. A soup and salad dinner will be provided, and a freewill offering will be received. Registration is required for this event, and the deadline for registration is Monday, March 11. Preregistered child care is also available. To sign up, readers may visit http://www.hempfieldumc.org/matters. Joyce Young is Hempfield UMC's director of care and minister of visitation.
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