Elaine Wittenberg is Associate Professor of Nursing Research and Education at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CaliforniaBetty R. Ferrell is a Professor and Director of Nursing Rearch and Education at City of Hope National Medical Center in Durate, CaliforniaJoy Goldsmith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis in Memphis, TennesseeThomas Smith is the Director of Palliative Medicine and Professor of Oncology in the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MarylandSandra L. Ragan is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OklahomaMyra Glajchen is the Director of Medical Education at the MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care and an Assistant Professor of Family and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, New YorkGeorge Handzo is the Director of Health Services, Research, and Quality at Healthcare Chaplaincy in New York, New York.