>have had lengthy conversations with Ron Panzer at Hospice Patients Alliance as well as the administrators, medical directors, and pastoral staff of a number of hospices in this region.<
I also wanted to comment that these people you list, esp. Administrators and medical directors never step near a bedside.
What field do you specialize in Dr. Kopp?
I am just a small town Podiatrist but I am in the process of opening a prolife Catholic home hospice care office and assisting in opening another.
Ron Panzer of the Hospice Patients Alliance spent many years as a hospice nurse. The founder of the Catholic hospice for which we will be a sub chapter worked for many years as a hospice nurse prior to opening her own Catholic Hospice.
So my primary sources have several decades of hands on hospice nursing care between them.