How Volunteers Help Hospice Volunteers typically help by: 1. Forming close bonds with patients and family members • Patients often tell volunteers things they feel they can’t tell
        their loved ones
• Family members may confide concerns to the volunteer that
        share with the dying person. 2. Improving communication within families • By encouraging each person to say what he or she needs to
        say volunteers help open the way for people to talk honesty "There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it". ~Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante