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.

Read more about this topic:  Cicely Saunders

Famous quotes containing the word death:

    “There is no sorrow more grievous than the death of one’s spirit.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    Zhaungzi.

    “For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
    Then love-devouring death do what he dare,
    It is enough I may but call her mine.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)