by Dying At Home | Jun 19, 2017
Nyeleti She was sitting there on a battered sofa in her tiny shack, a strikingly beautiful young African woman in a remote rural village in the north-eastern part of South Africa. The room was poorly lit and yet her face was beautiful. Nyeleti greeted us with a...
by Dying At Home | Jun 16, 2017
In the following poem we have a beautiful example of a dying patient as giving, as one who not only trusts their care to family and loved ones but who, at the same time, gives those carers a valuable legacy to sustain them in their mourning. Though we ourselves are...
by Dying At Home | Jun 16, 2017
Mothers have such an intimate relationship with their small children that we must credit them with an intuition that accompanies their love in times of danger that brings forth surprising wisdom and courage. Jeremy had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. He endured...
by Dying At Home | Jun 16, 2017
One exercise in our Cancer Care Program asked the participants to complete a questionnaire that asked how alive they were. We have many lives, intellectual, cultural, emotional, spiritual… People have a family life, a business life, and more. We listed ten...
by Dying At Home | Jun 16, 2017
When a columnist writing for The Weekend Australian in 2000 about the issue of losing children she was besieged by letters, one of which she subsequently ran in full. It came from Sally of Canberra, whom we met with her husband soon after reading of their loss. They...
