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The communication challenges that hospice chaplains regularly encounter---entering established family systems, discussing traditionally private or taboo subjects, and helping people prepare for an event the chaplains have not yet experienced themselves---make the understudied interactions of hospice chaplains well worth examining. Forty-five current and former hospice chaplains participated in this study. The majority of the participants took part in interviews about their communication practices; two participants kept records of their conversations with patients and their families over a two-week period. The results of these interviews and written records indicate that (a) general cultural views, organizational practices, situational factors, and role dialectics influence the types of conversations hospice chaplains have with patients and their families and (b) hospice chaplains choose from a variety of communication strategies in response to their analysis of the factors that affect a specific interaction. The communication choices of hospice chaplains can be understood in terms of a model that encompasses cultural views of death, spirituality, and religion; the practices of hospice organizations; relevant situational factors; and the tensions that emerge as hospice chaplains enact their role. 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