Dying Nurse Is a Nursing Teacher

Here is a great story from today's New York Times. Martha Keochareon was a nurse with a passion for teaching. This passion--or dharma--carried through all the way to her deathbed where she offered herself as a study subject for nurses in training.

Read this article (link below) to see how passion and usefulness persevere no matter what but also to see how death from cancer is described and managed. It is quite moving too to read how the nursing students came to understand the role and experiences of family caregivers in cancer care.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/us/fatally-ill-and-making-herself-the-lesson.html?smid=pl-share