Patricia Moir Pollman is a registered nurse and board-certified nurse coach with decades of experience in hospice and end-of-life care. In Chapter 18 of Handbook for Human Potential — the book's final chapter — she invites readers into a sacred, honest conversation about death as a natural and meaningful passage.
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Handbook for Human Potential
Who is Patricia Moir Pollman?
Patricia was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and immigrated to America in 1968, arriving in Reno in 1971, where she has served her community as an RN in Reno hospitals, across many specialty areas, including: hospice, palliative care, end of life care, and elder advocacy.
She has completed many studies including: end of life practitioner for re-imagining the end of life.
It is Patricia's passion to serve and support her clients in clarifying and envisioning their goals and purpose and in achieving their highest good and wellbeing through all of life transitions and stages: in health, wellness, illness, and in dying — by creating a sacred, safe, and healing space where clients can find and express their unique human potential.
Consider allowing me to walk with you, as a companion and guide, as a witness to your strength, courage and life experience, your inner knowing, vulnerability and pain you have overcome, and perhaps recover, the parts of you that may have become separated or lost upon the journey we call life. To call back that eternal you, that speaks throughout the ages of the ever present you.
“Living while dying is a magnificent, triumphant expression of being human.”
— Patricia Moir Pollman, Death: The Sacred Exit
Key Takeaways to Implement
From the end of Patricia's chapter
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Create or update your Advance Directive (living will) and ensure your loved ones know where it is. This single act of preparation is one of the greatest gifts you can give your family.
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Have the conversation — talk with your loved ones about your wishes for end of life. These conversations, though difficult, create profound peace and connection.
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Explore the concept of a "good death" for yourself: What would it look like? Where would you be? Who would be present? What would be left unsaid that needs to be said now?
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If you are supporting someone who is dying, remember: your presence is the medicine. You don't need to fix or solve — simply witness with love.
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Contact Patricia at pp93571@aol.com to explore end-of-life coaching, advance care planning, and sacred passage support.
