findings from the content analysis reinforce the quantitative data with regard to faith, relationships, and the need for connection, but also offers insight into the meaningof their numerical answers. For example, the means for I have a faith that gives me comfort and I know me life has meaning and purpose are 3.7 and 3.8, respectively. Content analysis revealed that for the majority of family caregivers interviewed, hope is very closely related to one connection to god as well as their faith in God. this in turn gave them a purpose in life. Although their lives would be forever changed, the impending death of their loved one did not now mean a life without hope, not was it an omen for the future.