Cicely Saunders - Death

Death

Dame Cicely died of cancer at the age of 87 in 2005, at St Christopher's Hospice, the hospice she herself had founded.

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    “It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.”
    —Indian proverb, quoted in Sébastien-roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations, vol. 1, no. 155 (1796, trans. 1926)

    “Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
    Then love-devouring death do what he dare,
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