I could not agree more. I was a late bloomer and didn't go to nursing school until I was 36 y/o, so when I got out of school with lots of bills to pay, four kids to put thru college or whatever they decided to do, I had to go into hospital bec hospice was a "low budget institution". Still is, I think. But the last five years before I retired, I did what I originally went to nursing school to do and went to work for hospice. It's God's work, I'm sure. Wonderful people. Only trouble is, all your friends die. But, at least you have the privilege of caring for them and enabling their passage to be easier.