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Hospice nurse Beverly Math- eson has just returned from a shi- va call. She has many times talked to her patient families about sitting shiva and other Jewish customs. Matheson is Methodist. She believes, though, that coming to hospice was a call- ing. She took a $15,000 pay cut at a job one mile from her home to come work for Hospice of Michi- gan. "I got a call from a patient in the middle of the night," she said. 'We talked through the night, and when we were through, I de- cided it was a calling from God. I knew it was time to leave. Now, Pm working more hours, making less money. I've never been hap- pier." She says that her family trees have her descended from an Irish king, who married Jewish royalty. She's worked for years in and out of the Jewish com- munity as a private nurse. 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"Jewish hospice has been a wonderful experience, under- standing the culture, what is needed," she said. "I understand the family of a Jewish home. I walk in the home and find out what they want done. This is their experience, not mine. I want it to go as well as it can in a positive direction. I've become part of the family for that time." Few cities have a full-service Jewish hospice like Michigan. Hospice of Michigan Medical Di- rector Dr. John Finn says Jew- ish patients have been underserved for years. "Say the word 'hospice,"' he said, "and you think of Christian roots and Christian connotations. Maybe the laying on of hands. But largely, hospice has this connotations as being white and middle class. It's important that Jews and other faiths be able to experience hospice through their own faith." Dr. Finn and Rabbi Freedman are helping to set up a hospice program in Israel's Central Galilee region. They have visit- ed the area and have had Israeli physicians visit them here in De- troit. The effort is part of Fed- eration's Partnership 2000, a cultural, economic and social ex- change program. "Hospice care is just so very in- timate," said Lois Armstrong, ex- ecutive vice president of the Hospice of Michigan. "It was im- portant for us to realize that Jew- ish homes have unique characteristics." In the home of Lew and Gert Honigman, a hospice aid comes in to clean Gert, change her bed- ding and even get her out of bed. A nurse comes in once a week, and a social worker is a regular visitor. Hospice, Lew said, is sup- posed to be about dying. But it's hospice that he credits with keep- ing his wife alive and the two of them together. "I'm grateful to hospice, I'm grateful to Rabbi Freedman," he says. "I still believe in God and Judaism. Hospice has been like some form of angel to me. But it's difficult. To see her laying there. I sit here some days and cry." A little placard nearby says, "Our Father, Our King, send in a perfect healing to the sick among thy people." Lew looks at Gert. 'We've been together for -58- years. In 1994 when she got sick, she was a wonderful wife. She is still my wonderful wife." ❑ -