A resting place for pilgrims as life's pilgrimage ends.
Hospital life goes down that long, dark corridor to the end of life to become, for this week at least, Hospice life. At St Mary's in Birmingham a belief in man's dignity and destiny informs its every act in lightening that shadow which, as Ernest Becker put it, haunts our most sun-filled days--some people's days more than others. Derek Spooner, St Mary's administrator, takes up his pen at this ultimate watershed in our lives when curing is over and caring begins.
D004739:England; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006738:Hospices / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*