Both my parents died in a hospice – the decline I saw in end-of-life care in four years was terrifying | Natalie Morris
This crisis is not the fault of medical professionals. If funding for hospices is cut further, more people will die in distress
In September, I found myself back in a hell that was all too familiar. My mum was in a hospice, dying of cancer, while I camped at her bedside or paced the halls desperately. Four years earlier – almost to the day – I had been in the exact same position with my dad after his cancer diagnosis became terminal. How was this happening to us again? And so soon? It felt like the past had looped back on itself, trapping me in a recurring nightmare.
And yet something fundamental had changed in the short period between my parents’ deaths – the quality of end-of-life care has undergone a shocking and rapid decline. It is a growing crisis that I have had the misfortune of witnessing first-hand.
Natalie Morris is the author of Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? airs on ITV1 at 8.30pm on 28 November
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This crisis is not the fault of medical professionals. If funding for hospices is cut further, more people will die in distress
In September, I found myself back in a hell that was all too familiar. My mum was in a hospice, dying of cancer, while I camped at her bedside or paced the halls desperately. Four years earlier – almost to the day – I had been in the exact same position with my dad after his cancer diagnosis became terminal. How was this happening to us again? And so soon? It felt like the past had looped back on itself, trapping me in a recurring nightmare.
And yet something fundamental had changed in the short period between my parents’ deaths – the quality of end-of-life care has undergone a shocking and rapid decline. It is a growing crisis that I have had the misfortune of witnessing first-hand.
Natalie Morris is the author of Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain
Keeping Care Alive: Hospices in Crisis? airs on ITV1 at 8.30pm on 28 November
Continue reading...
By Natalie Morris
Both my parents died in a hospice – the decline I saw in end-of-life care in four years was terrifying | Natalie Morris to Continue reading...
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