Cicely Saunders

Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders, OM, DBE ( born June 22, 1918 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, † 14 July 2005 in London) was an English doctor, social worker and nurse. In addition to Elisabeth Kubler- Ross she is considered the founder of the modern hospice movement and palliative care.

Cicely Saunders attended Roedean School, St Anne 's College, Oxford, St Thomas 's Hospital and the Nightingale School of Nursing at King's College London, where she was trained as a nurse. Later she became a doctor.

In 1948 she inherited £ 500 to open a hospice. But it took another 20 years, until 1967, St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham in south-east London, was opened.

In the 1950s, she worked for seven years as a doctor in the Hospice of the Sisters of Mercy.

Your belief that it is possible to make the last days of a person pleasant, carried her to the world. The development of palliative care and hospices are very much thank you.

Saunders has received numerous awards. In 1980 she was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II and thus elevated to the personal nobility. In 1989, she was taken by Elizabeth II in the Order of Merit, also appointed in 1989 as the only woman of the 20th century in England as an honorary Doctor of Medicine ( passed by the Archbishop of Canterbury ). In 2001 she was awarded the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize (endowed with U.S. $ 1.5 million). 2003 Saunders was awarded the Honorary Award of the Viktor Frankl Foundation of the City of Vienna, 2004, with the Ernst -von- Bergmann Medal of the German Medical Association. On July 3, 2005, she gave the University of Bath honorary doctorate.

Saunders was married once.

As a Christian, she leaned shortening of life ( euthanasia ) strictly. Dying was more time to say thank you for them the chance to friends and family.

In the UK there are now 220 hospices and over 8,000 worldwide. She herself died 87 years old in the hospice opened by you.