Alive co-founders David Barton, MD, is a retired physician-psychiatrist, and Lynn Palmer Barton, LCSW, is a practicing therapist and mediator. Until a few weeks ago, Alive Hospice in Nashville was, for us, a dream come true. In 1975, along with Dr. John Flexner, we founded what has become a highly respected Middle Tennessee agency caring for people coping with dying, death, and bereavement. We held the first meeting of the organization in our living room on a cold December night in 1974.
