Local Poet Launches a Crowdfunding Campaign that Benefits Hospice of the Chesapeake and Its Patients

Local poet Deborah McGlauflin has launched an online CrowdRise campaign through which anyone may make a charitable donation to Hospice of the Chesapeake that will gift one or more copies of her recently published book of end-of-life poetry, Good in the End, to patients and families in its care at its new Rebecca Fortney Inpatient Care Center.

The book is a full-color, photo-illustrated 54-page paperback. In her online review of it, Kathleen Dowling Singh, the acclaimed author of The Grace in Dying, said: “Deborah McGlauflin's Good in the End is a lovely book. Her poetry and her photography are poignant and evocative responses to death around us--in a suffering world, a woods in autumn, at the bedside of the terminally ill. They speak to what is most essential and meaningful in these lives of ours. Death brings its unexpected gifts and Deborah offers one here.”

Ms. McGlauflin is already donating all of her author’s royalties from the retail sale of the book on Lulu (www.lulu.com) to Hospice of the Chesapeake. When she also personally donated a number of copies to the Inpatient Care Center and saw how much they were appreciated, she came up with the idea of the crowdfunding campaign. As of February 18, 56 books had been gifted.

To participate, go to https://www.crowdrise.com/good.... A tax-deductible gift of $10 will gift one copy of the book. The donor may choose to have a label placed on inside cover identifying him/herself as the donor.

Deborah McGlauflin works and is a Vigil Volunteer at Hospice of the Chesapeake. She is also a Certified End-of-Life Specialist and a Life-Cycle Celebrant® specializing in end-of-life ceremonies through Good in the EndTM Celebrant Services (www.goodintheend.com). She has published four books of poetry, including one titled Lucky Enough! – Poetry from a Life by the Chesapeake Bay. She has an author’s page at www.lulu.com/spotlight/dmcglau....

The Rebecca Fortney Inpatient Care Center is located on Hospice of the Chesapeake’s John and Cathy Belcher Campus in Pasadena, MD (www.hospicechesapeake.org). It opened at the end of 2015 and provided skilled and compassionate hospice care to nearly 700 patients and their families during its first year.

CONTACT:
Deborah McGlauflin
Tel 410.919.8556
dmcglauflin@gmail.com