End of life articles
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Life and Life Only
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
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Improvement to end-of-life arrangements at KGH
A Kettering General Hospital sonographer has helped improve end-of-life care arrangements at the hospital after she lost her mother. The hospital’s Lead Sonographer in the Radiology Department, Dr Kalpana Lakhani, lost her mother, Mrs Pushpaben P Lakhani who died aged 91 on Mother’s Day 2021. Her mother was taken to the mortuary in one of our older-style trolleys and Kalpana thought the improvements could be made to how that was done. She said: “The last journey from the ward to the Chapel of...
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Reader's View: Those in pain deserve end-of-life choices
The End-of-Life Option Act would only apply to people of sound mind who are already dying in six months or less from terminal conditions.