Taiwan Today: In July, a Taiwanese terminal cancer patient had a party to bid farewell to her family and friends. News on this “living funeral” and the participants’ openness to death amazed readers in a society where talk of death is customarily avoided. The tendency to shun such communication has also hampered the advancement of end-of-life measures including palliative care, life support withdrawal and do-not-resuscitate orders.
In the face of this cultural taboo, hospice care began to develop in Taiwan thanks to the efforts of a group of medical professionals dedicated to ensuring that terminally ill patients get the best care possible, without overtreatment.
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