{"id":67,"date":"2011-08-05T12:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-08-05T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:29:01","slug":"serving-life-documentary-a-must-see-kathy-g-segale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/serving-life-documentary-a-must-see-kathy-g-segale\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving Life Documentary: A Must See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-68\" title=\"olive-003-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/olive-003-medium-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"olive-003-medium\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><em>by, Kathy G. Segale<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reporting from the Pacific Northwest, Kathy G. Segale guides us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/own\">OWN Network<\/a> for a sneak peek at a Documentary Film entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/press.discovery.com\/us\/own\/programs\/serving-life\/\">Serving Life<\/a>\u201d by Forest Whitaker\u2028\u2028In this two hour Film we go behind the scenes into a Maximum Security prison\u2028where a Hospice program is offered to dying inmates. Healthy men who are in for life with no chance of parole are nursing their dying inmates and being given an opportunity to give back.\u2028\u2028I was in tears watching these hardened criminals lovingly caring for their dying fellow inmates.\u2028\u2028Trained by Hospice to perform the daily acts of living such as bathing, and toileting their fellow inmates with life limiting illnesses changes these inmates lives significantly. \u2028These are intimidate care giving activities, which is emotional for these men to do to one another. Some are accepting, some men, not so much. \u2028Over time the love and friendship come together and these two criminals become bonded to each other and accept the care and love. \u2028\u2028The Hospice trained inmates are able to give a gift of themselves and feel self-worth, some of them for the first time in their life. . The inmates feel that this is a way they can pay back to others for their wrongs.\u2028\u2028Forest Whitaker said: If you allow people to nurture the light that is inside each one of us, that light can grow through compassion for others.\u2028\u2028He says don\u2019t give up on yourself, care for the people who are around you and see how you are touching their lives. A very inspiring story available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/own\">Own Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by, Kathy G. Segale Reporting from the Pacific Northwest, Kathy G. Segale guides us to OWN Network for a sneak peek at a Documentary Film entitled \u201cServing Life\u201d by Forest Whitaker\u2028\u2028In this two hour Film we go behind the scenes into a Maximum Security prison\u2028where a Hospice program is offered to dying inmates. Healthy men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yesworldwide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}