Club member Clift wins Buchwald Award for book about husband's final days

National Press Club member Eleanor Clift has been selected as this year’s Art Buchwald Award recipient by The Washington Home & Community Hospices for her book "Two Weeks of Life."

Clift wrote about her husband’s final days. The award will be presented at a fundraising gala on Friday, Oct. 21.

Art Buchwald was a hospice patient at The Washington Home & Community Hospices and wrote about his hospice experience in his newspaper columns and in his last book, "Too Soon to Say Goodbye."

These public witnesses helped raise awareness and acceptance of hospice care as a choice for end-of-life care. The Buchwald Award is given to someone who has made a similar contribution to the understanding and acceptance of hospice care.

Clift, a Newsweek reporter, author and television commentator, compared parallel end-of-life experiences in "Two Weeks of Life." One was her husband’s quiet death at home with hospice care, and the other was the very public and contentious case of Terry Schiavo.

“Hospice played a central role in the last four months of Tom’s life, making possible the closest thing to what I imagine is a good death when death is inevitable and imminent," Clift wrote.

The Gala benefits The Washington Home & Community Hospices. Founded in 1888, the organization has earned a reputation for excellence in nursing and hospice services and has been a pioneer in developing innovative programs.

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