Contact Information

For general inquiries or suggestions for this web site please contact us at: info@nelsonhospice.org.

Nelson & District Hospice Society serves the East Shore of Kootenay Lake; Kaslo and Nelson areas.

• East Shore & Area Coordinator: Alexis Phillips
  Box 217, Crawford Bay, BC  V0B 1E0
  Phone: 250-227-9006 ext. 29
  Fax: 250-227-9017
  E-mail: hospice@theeastshore.net

• Kaslo & Area Coordinator: Joan Hall
  Box 607, Kaslo, BC V0G 1M0
  Street Address:
  Victorian Community Health Centre, 673 A Avenue
  Phone: 250-353-2299
  Fax: 250-353-2738
  E-mail: kaslohospice@netidea.com

• Nelson & Area Executive Director/Coordinator: Stevi Urben
  Box 194, Nelson, BC V1L 5P9
  Street Address:
  Kootenay Lake Hospital Annex Building, 3 View Street
  Phone: 250-352-2337
  Fax: 250-352-2377
  E-mail: nelsonhospice@netidea.com

• BOARD OF DIRECTORS (07/08)

           Johannes van der Krabben, Chair

               Ralph Friesen, Co-chair

               Jane Leeming, Treasurer

               Marina Fish, Secretary

               Morag Reid, Director

               Leslie Hamblin-Cobb, Director

               Rivkah Moore, Director

About The Photographs on this website

 "For several years I have had the good fortune to photograph people in the last days of their lives. These people have been strangers and friends, people in Hospice care and on their own, people surrounded by family and friends, husbands and wives in their last days of intimacy, parents burying their child.

On the surface, I'm chronicling a person's last days, but from the very beginning I have been aware my role to the dying is that of a witness; the photographs aren't for them but for others. I am there to witness their existence; that is for them. While sitting next to his wife of 54 years while he slept, she thanked me for photographing and for the photographs, 'You know, when you're old, you're ignored, and when you're old and sick, you're invisible'.

I think, as well, that dying people see this as an opportunity to have one more adventure, a curiosity fulfilled: to be photographed without care.

Sometimes I don't photograph because I'm afraid to intrude on intimacy not directly mine. When I've moved through this fear, I may have missed the most telling moment, but I have heard only thank you's for those I have caught".

Fred Rosenberg

You may contact Fred about his photography at 352-2129 orfdr@netidea.com

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