Promoting life rather than death

It is natural for a person to feel helpless and hopeless when a terminal or incurable condition is first diagnosed but, given the right support by family, friends and the medical community, it is quite possible to come through this phase and to enjoy some quality of life and even its enrichment. As Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the hospice movement, has said, "Our last days are not necessarily lost days." . . . Again and again, people have told me how much they have learned about themselves and others at this time in their lives. Telegraph