Both hospice and the church have important ministries unities to to offer the dying, their families, and their friends. Now hospice and the church are are finding ways to work together. In this important book, Paul Irion draws from his long career in pastoral psychology and bis long-term contacts with the hospice movement to interpret each organization to the other. Irion shows how the church and hospice can enhance each other's care for the dying. He also clearly states where the guiding philosophies of the two differ.