Cicely Saunders Quotes

• You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Death, Christian

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• How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Death, Memories

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• Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy.

  Cicely Saunders

  Kindness, Care, Faith In God

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• Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.

  Cicely Saunders

  Attitude, Ideas, Dying

  Foreword in The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1993)

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