Author Joan Paddock Maxwell is a speaker and teacher about death and dying from a spiritual and psychological perspective, drawing from 12 years' experience as a hospital chaplain, 6 of them as interfaith palliative care chaplain at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, where she specialized in patients who were dying. "It was my joy to serve people from every walk of life and many different countries; people of many different faiths, including no faith at all. As life draws to a close, matters of the spirit become crucially important to patients and their families and friends." Visit joanpmaxwell.com for more information.