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Earlier this month, she welcomed the Queen to St. Christopher's to help celebrate the hospice's 21 years as the mother ship of a worldwide movement that has become known simply as "hospice." Increasingly people are choosing the death with dignity pioneered at St. Christopher's, either in inpatient facilities or, more often, at home through hospice-administered visiting programs. Hospice care is available in developing countries, such as India and Thailand, and in the Communist world (Poland has opened five hospices). But no country has embraced the concept as widely as the U.S., which has 1,679 hospice...
...Health Service. Once a world traveler, she now stays close to home so that she can minister to her ailing 87-year-old husband, Polish Artist Marian Bohusz-Szyszko. She has always studiously avoided the spotlight cast on her more famous contemporary, Elisabeth Kubler- Ross, the author of On Death and Dying. "I am not a cult figure," she once angrily told an adoring American...
...would such a woman, an Oxford graduate and the daughter of a wealthy London real estate agent, choose to devote her life to death? One answer is her religion. Converted from atheism as a gawky, somewhat gauche, young woman, she went through a period of evangelistic fervor, during which she was a Billy Graham counselor, before she finally settled into the Anglican church. Her faith created much apprehension among doctors when St. Christopher's first opened. "We suspected she wanted to produce deathbed conversions," says Consulting Psychiatrist Colin Murray Parkes. "How wrong we were." Insists Dame Cicely: "There...
Another explanation for her dedication is that she has trained as a nurse, a social worker and a doctor (she was nearly 39 when she qualified) and has learned the ways in which love and death are often inevitably linked. She has always had an extraordinary gift for establishing intimate contact with patients, drawing strength from them even as she gives it. She talks lovingly, almost as a mother, of long-gone patients -- Mrs. G., Louie, Ted -- who would listen to her problems and anxieties...
...Florence Nightingale's. Not long after, the Sisters of Charity opened a similar home in London. It was largely at that home, in the 1950s and 1960s, that Dame Cicely developed her ideas for a modern hospice that would bring physical and spiritual peace in the face of death. The end of life "can turn out to be the most important part," says...