biography
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Saunders, Dame Cicely (Mary Strode)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1918– )
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| biography:
| Founder of the modern hospice movement, born in London, UK. She studied at Oxford, and trained at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and the Nightingale School of Nursing. She became founder (1967), medical director (1967–85), and chairman (from 1985) of St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham. She promotes the principle of dying with dignity, maintaining that death is a natural process and can be eased by sensitive nursing and effective pain-control. She has received many awards for her pioneering work, including the Templeton Prize in 1981, and has written and edited a number of books on her subject. |
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