%0 Journal Article %T Compassion and Community in Perinatal Palliative Care: Understanding the Necessity of the Patient Perspective Through Narrative Illustration %A Jennifer Kuchemba-Hunter %J Journal of Palliative Care %@ 2369-5293 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0825859719827020 %X Advancing technology in reproductive medicine has led to more frequent perinatal diagnoses of fatal or life-limiting anomaly. For those parents who choose to continue pregnancies while facing such a diagnosis, compassionate and communal perinatal palliative care provides beneficial physical and psycho-socio-emotional support for these families, so that they may preserve and acknowledge the relationship with their child, no matter how brief his/her life %K perinatal palliative care %K narrative %K life-limiting diagnosis %K fetal anomaly %K compassion %K community %K empathy %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0825859719827020