Still Feeling Some Obligation
Divorce if you want, but maybe, just maybe, there is something behind the Catholic position that a valid sacrament can't merely be broken and tossed away:
In scenes exhibiting a vivid range of feelings - acrimony, compassion, rekindled love, abiding friendship - sick and dying Americans are being cared for by former spouses.
Hospice workers, academics and doctors say they are seeing more such cases, a development that is not surprising given the nation's changing demographics in the last 30 years.