Resources

Inspiring stories of Asian women in Mongolia and elsewhere engaged in local home based palliative care

This very comprehensive document by the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care alliance is free to download

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.

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.

The founder of St Christopher’s Hospice wanted others to know that Christian faith was at the heart of her life’s work.

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.”

It makes ‘death’ another treatment option and changes the way doctors think about care

Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip presented a thoughtful and compelling case against legalised euthanasia.

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.

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.

100,000 people who could benefit from palliative care die without receiving it. There’s a clear socio economic gradient to this.

What a lovely way to die: at home, surrounded by her family, quickly and easily, without hospitalization, a peaceful slipping away into the everlasting arms of her heavenly Father, hers and ours.