FARMINGTON – A four-week series on issues dealing with the end of life is scheduled to begin Sunday, Oct. 26.

Western Maine Palliative Care and Hospice Coalition will sponsor the series, to be held at 6 p.m. this Sunday and subsequent Sundays at Trinity United Methodist Church on Farmington Falls Road.

Topics are to be presented by coalition members in an informal setting that allows for questions and discussion.

Local hospice physician Dr. Cam Bopp will discuss What is Hospice on Oct. 26.

Ed David, lawyer, and Diana White, registered nurse and a community health professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, will discuss Advance Directives on Nov. 2. Advance directive forms will be available for participants to take home and complete with their personal physicians and family.

On Nov. 9, Rhonda Wiles, funeral director and bereavement specialist at Wiles Funeral Home, will present a session titled Bereavement, and on Nov. 16, Marriott Churchill, pastor at United Methodist and chaplain at Franklin Memorial Hospital, will discuss faith perspectives.

All presentations are open to the public.

“Dying is one of those things all of us must face, yet a recent survey conducted by the coalition indicates that the majority of Franklin County residents have had little exposure to planning for this eventuality,” noted Bopp.

“This series offers a preliminary road map.”

The coalition was formed in 1999 in response to interest expressed in the community around end-of-life issues. For more information, phone Corey Walmer at 778-5752.

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