[MarkL]

Agreed. They helped ease my mother's passing from terminal cancer. They didn't "help her die." She WAS dying. They helped make her more comfortable (and the rest of the family, as well) as she was dying.

Mark

[Happygal]

I don't mean to be contraversial on the boards by arguing about the pro's and con's of Hospice.

But I genuinely believe Hospice (and particularly Hospice Homecare, in my home town)..to be THE most deserving charity I've ever come across.

I'm sure they are the same globally. (I'm in Ireland).
But they give SOOOOO much to people, who are at SUCH a low ebb. Not only the person dying, but also the family so anxious and upset around them. They just KNOW how to handle everyone.

I particularly will NOT have a word said against them.
And I fundraise every year for them.