Stories of spiritual uncertainty emerged from research about spirituality at the end of life.

What is it about?

Qualitative research was conducted to understand spirituality from the perspective of hospice patients. In addition to telling stories about spirituality they also talked about the questions, worries, and doubts they had about spirituality. These are known as spiritual uncertainties. This article presents two participants' because they had very different stories to tell about spiritual uncertainty. While one was calm and essentially not affected by his spiritual questions, the other expressed significant distress.

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Why is it important?

This illustrates the difficulty of spiritual uncertainty for patients and providers because it is so dynamic and can produce distress for some but not for others.