“It is important that you know how deeply your efforts touch people. When they are at their most vulnerable – paralyzed with fear and unspeakable sadness – you reach out to embrace them, one human being to another, with the compassion that heals and offers hope.”
- A family member

“My husband John loved Alive Hospice. He served on its board for nine years, requested its services for hundreds of patients and was an initial donor for Alive Hospice Residence of Nashville. When he had to succumb to his own illness, his only request of me was to call Alive Hospice, and it served John as well as me and out children. To this day I am eternally grateful to this phenomenal organization. Alive truly empowered me with great strength in knowing that John was comfortable as he quietly slipped away.”
- Dana Strupp

“The doctors and nurses in the hospital’s intensive care unit said to us before we left for the residence, You are all in for a wonderful experience…and we were.”
- Neil Devine

“Hospice was like a blessing to me. Without their help, I would not have been able to care for my husband at home.”
- A surviving Wife

“Alive Hospice was too good to be true. Its team served my dear friend Maluak, a lost boy of Sudan, and provided the emotional and physical support he needed. Alive’s services were an answer to prayer.”
- Kay Vanfleteren

“Once my child became a patient at Alive Hospice staff handled the tedious details I used to handle. Everyone was there for us when we needed them, and the team felt like friends.”
- Parent of pediatric patient

“It’s the best thing I’ve ever done. We are giving something back without accepting anything in return.” – Brenda Dew, on volunteering with her pet therapy dog, Miss Daisy “Volunteering with Alive Hospice allows me the honor of being with dying patients and their families during this critical time. I always leave a home feeling I benefited from the experience. I have a renewed perspective of living life to its fullest and making family the highest priority.”
– An Alive Hospice volunteer

“I would like to express our gratitude to everyone for the gentle compassionate care we received. I have told everyone that you all have wings underneath your clothes.”
– A family member