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Peer reviewedKastenbaum, Robert – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1993
Presents interview with Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of international hospice care movement. Saunders describes her background and experiences that led her to form the hospice movement and discusses the need for pain control for terminally ill patients. Saunders also notes her opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. (NB)
Descriptors: Cancer, Death, Helping Relationship, Hospices (Terminal Care)
