Summary:
The hospice is the last place most of us want to end up in, as there is almost never a return ticket. The usual way out is in a long, narrow box and it is a daunting prospect for the members of a patient’s family. On the other hand, a hospice is a dignified place to spend your last days before death takes you.

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That famous song stated that wherever I lay my hat, that’s my home. As we travel along the intricate windings of our own road through life, the last place many of us will end up laying our hat is the hospice. The hospice is the place you go when the hospital can do no more for you. In other, less elegantly descriptive words, that’s where you go to die. In this sometimes morbid, sometimes uplifting look at the role the hospice plays in the last days of a person’s life, the intention is to demonstrate that while it may be a place where a person abandons all hope, it is also a place where the abandonment of that hope can be done in comfort and death can be faced with dignity.

Many hospitals are overcrowded and under staffed, yet doctors, nurses, surgeons and all other auxiliary staff manage to stave off death and often miraculously save lives day in and day out. Yet there comes the times when even the monumental efforts of those wonderful human beings is not enough and patients either die on the operating table, or death takes them in their sleep back in the wards and private rooms. Others cling on to life while slipping beyond the help of the medical marvels who are frustrated at every turn by the aggressive state of the diseases that have taken hold of those patients.

It is those patients who have slipped beyond the capabilities of medical science to prolong their lives very much further for whom the important decision has to be made. That is to abandon the treatment that is now failing them and move them into a place that is better geared up, equipped and staffed to look after them in their final days on this mortal plane. That place is the hospice.

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Written by: Terry Roberts
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