Meaningful compassion for those who are dying can be be enhanced when we ask ourselves: How fully cognizant am I that this will happen to me? The Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax shares how mindful support of those in the active dying process can help us transform the time of suffering for those to whom we offer care, and also shape us into transformative people. Her thinking reminds me of the complimentary teaching of the Christian priest Henri Nouwen, who described compassion as "the full immersion in the condition of being human."
