The In-Between: unforgettable encounters during life’s final moments
From ‘Bureaucracy adds to the pain of bereavement’
Advice on end-of-life caregiving
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George Alagiah’s reflection on his cancer
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After Cicely - Asian Women in Palliative care
Inspiring stories of Asian women in Mongolia and elsewhere engaged in local home based palliative care
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Global Atlas of Palliative Care
This very comprehensive document by the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care alliance is free to download
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Where to find more help - books and websites
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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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Resource booklet on Assisted Suicide
Resource title
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“Bill United - a Compassionate Community”
Scope of Palliative Care
Addressing Suffering – The Kerala Model
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Death-the great leveller? Dr Helen Salisbury
100,000 people who could benefit from palliative care die without receiving it. There’s a clear socio economic gradient to this.
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The Death of the Queen - a death at home
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.
Spiritual Care at the end of life: The Chaplain as a ‘Hopeful Presence’ by Steve Nolan
