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Testimony
George Alagiah’s reflection on his cancer
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Article
Where to find more help - books and websites
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Talking Points
Terminal Gate
At last, here’s a really accessible book about dying. Four writers with varied personal, pastoral and medical experience speak plainly and practically about all the various issues that surround death and dying.
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Talking Points
Resource booklet on Assisted Suicide
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Testimony
Lung Cancer - a Personal Approach
Dr Andrew Miller worked from 1983-2007 as a consultant Chest Physician. Some of his patients had lung cancer. He writes here of his experience of and with these patients.
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Testimony
Cicely Saunders and her Christian faith
The founder of St Christopher’s Hospice wanted others to know that Christian faith was at the heart of her life’s work.
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Talking Points
Earthquakes and sudden death
Our lives can be cut short at any time by all sorts of natural events, great and small: that word is simply, “Prepare to meet your God.”
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Talking Points
Why assisted dying should not be a human right
It makes ‘death’ another treatment option and changes the way doctors think about care
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Talking Points
The cruelty of assisted dying
Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip presented a thoughtful and compelling case against legalised euthanasia.
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Talking Points
Help for doctors
In 2018, the UK professional membership body The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) led a project for doctors on Talking about Dying – How to begin honest conversations about what lies ahead.
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Article
Cicely Saunders - pioneer of the modern day hospice movement.
It is wonderfully inspiring when someone finds the time, energy, wisdom and inspiration to bring about a change that helps so many in crisis.
Dame Cicely Saunders had a young close friend dying of cancer and was very distressed by all he was going through. She determined to draw on her nursing and social care experience to set up places to train staff to care for those, like her friend, for whom there was no cure or helpful treatment, and who were facing potentially increasing pain of body, mind and spirit.
As a result, St Christopher’s Hospice was founded.