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Giving Australians the death they’d prefer
In 2004, chief executive Kim Macgowan was chatting with The District Nurses team and came across a student nurse who was sobbing. The nurse felt she had just made the last visit to one of the service’s clients. The man she had been caring for had terminal cancer and she was concerned that he would die alone and in pain.
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I want to work in this field…. am a great believer that people should be able to die, WELL, at home. My mum died in a hospital…I hated it even though I had 2 little ones; being her carer would have been an honour, a blessing. She would have been home with Dad, and had a good death. I regret every day that this couldn’t happen.
This dhould be available in every state of Australia. It is time fior us to lead the world with our care for the Terminally ill..