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Contact InformationNelson & District Hospice Society serves the East Shore of Kootenay Lake; Kaslo and Nelson areas. East Shore & Area Coordinator: Alexis Phillips East Shore Community Health Centre 15985 Hwy. 3A Crawford Bay Phone: 250-227-9006 ext. 29 E-mail: hospice@theeastshore.net Kaslo & Area Coordinator: Joan Hall Nelson & Area Executive Director/Coordinator: Stevi Urben BOARD OF DIRECTORS (09/10) Ralph Friesen , Chair Jane Leeming, Treasurer Morag Reid, Secretary Pierce Sharelove, 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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