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Very few people live out their last days with good palliative care. Why is that? - LifeSite

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(LifeSiteNews) – I’ve had an encouraging email from Marie Curie, the United Kingdom’s largest palliative care charity. It seems that over 53,500 people have signed their petition to the British government “to fix end of life care,” and it has been delivered to the new prime minister.
“Every single person who is dying or bereaved deserves the best possible support, right to the end,” Marie Curie declares. “No one should be left to face the current crisis in end-of-life care. It’s time for change.”
Here in Scotland, good palliative care, inspired by the pioneering work of Dame Cicely Saunders, is still available. Sadly, relatively few people receive it. This strikes me as unfair. We are always told the two certainties of life are death and taxes, and we do pay a lot of taxes in Scotland. Shouldn’t those taxes go toward ensuring …

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The answer to the question posed: the culture of death and materialism has reduced life to just another commodity.