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Sally Scofield, a McKay-Dee Hospital social worker, said that when she worked with her first AIDS patient, Clair Harward, three years ago, she was a bit fearful. "But as I worked with the young man, who had been excommunicated from his church and lacked family support, the fear vanished, as it did for his other caretakers," she said. Scofield said she was unable to find a nursing home from Brigham City to Salt Lake City that was willing to take the man as a patient. She said the man wouldn't let Hospice help him, but still he was afraid of dying alone. "I know I shouldn't have made the promise, but I did. I told him I wouldn't let him die alone . . . and by the will of God and a nudge, I was there when he died," she said. "He had been comatose, but when I asked him if he knew who I was, he said, "Yes." He then took my hand and gave it a squeeze and a few minutes later he was dead." Excerpted from Deseret News, November 2, 1989. Please add your own tribute by sending an email to
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