"Having someone - doesn’t have to be religious to be clear - who has been in those rooms can be helpful."
Starting a flame about religion is very not appropriate. Please don't do that.
I just want religion left out of such topics, because it makes everything worse.
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No evidence based medical treatment has ever been improved (reasonable definitions like longevity and real metrics like numbers) by making it religious. The same goes for every human endeavor, religion taints and drags.
At its core religion is belief before evidence and that simply isn't a path to long term progress.
>Sometimes, this is the gift of having a trained chaplain, pastor
oh, yeah?