Post by Logan on Jul 9, 2016 3:42:21 GMT -6
For the homeless and others who lived ‘a complicated life,’ Utah’s Inn Between offers a comfortable place to die
Lee Archuletta told his wife, Janice, last week to empty the water-filled milk jugs he was using as weights.
"I think I'm about done," Lee said. He planned to sleep, "but it's going to be a long nap."
Soon after, the 57-year-old was dead. Cancer had stripped every ounce of strength from the man who once prided himself on his toned, muscular body.
Janice cradled Lee in her arms July 1 as he took his last breath at the Inn Between: in a bed with clean sheets, a roof over his head and access to health care.
If not for that organization, Utah's first hospice for the homeless, Lee might have died on the hot, concrete streets of Salt Lake City or in a homeless shelter.
Read more: www.sltrib.com/news/4083676-155/for-the-homeless-and-others-who
Lee Archuletta told his wife, Janice, last week to empty the water-filled milk jugs he was using as weights.
"I think I'm about done," Lee said. He planned to sleep, "but it's going to be a long nap."
Soon after, the 57-year-old was dead. Cancer had stripped every ounce of strength from the man who once prided himself on his toned, muscular body.
Janice cradled Lee in her arms July 1 as he took his last breath at the Inn Between: in a bed with clean sheets, a roof over his head and access to health care.
If not for that organization, Utah's first hospice for the homeless, Lee might have died on the hot, concrete streets of Salt Lake City or in a homeless shelter.
Read more: www.sltrib.com/news/4083676-155/for-the-homeless-and-others-who