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We
aim to fill a gap in the help available for those facing the end
of their lives, by assisting to relegate fears and worries, thus
allowing the freedom to depart cleanly and safely, with the dignity,
self-value and respect to which all life aspires. We applaud the
valuable work already being done by many different care professionals,
and we work alongside these existing services, so often short-staffed
and over-stretched, by making the time for the necessary emotional
and spiritual settlement.
When
there has been a diagnosis of any terminal illness, not just Cancer,
then we will support and guide you the patient, family and/or friends,
all together or separately, to help you come to terms with what
you are all now facing, in different ways
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We can come to your home, talk with you on the phone, or accompany
you throughout in hospital, hospice or nursing home
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We help you deal with practicalities like making a Will and
understanding and compiling a Living Will. We advise on
how
to ensure your wishes are adhered to during terminal care and
treatment, particularly where there is the fear of losing
control
of your faculties. We will help with arranging a funeral, preparing
a body for interment, officiating at a funeral -
anything
where you feel the need for support and kindly, unobtrusive
assistance - all the while empowering you to be as fully
engaged
in the process as you would want to be, or even not at all
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We offer befriending, companionship and, if necessary, professional
in-depth counselling, during the whole time of the approach
to the inevitable departure of life. Close family and friends
may wish to play a more integrated part in the process of dying,
and we will encourage, nurture and support them, without judgement
or bias. We continue our support of family and friends after
the death of their loved one, and provide care and understanding
to fortify the life that is ending, and the lives of those left
grieving.
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If
you simply want a listening ear, a voice of support, or
someone
not directly involved with the medical aspects of your life
to talk to, then call us. We work alongside those in the
caring
professions, being able to give the time needed that sometimes
over-stretched professionals are simply unable to offer
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We do all of the above, and anything else you feel you may need
in terms of support, counsel, back-up, mental, emotional and
spiritual settlement, easement and disentanglement
We
are continually training others to help in this field, to any
degree
that they want to become involved - either as friend volunteer,
hospice visitor, or full-time companion-counsellor. Many people
who have gone through bereavement themselves, perhaps even nursing
their own partner through the dying process, often dearly wish
to
help others in the same position - and we wholeheartedly welcome
these to our organisation. This kind of real help is sorely needed
all
over
the world, and we will try to make it possible for anyone who
wants
to engage in this kind of honourable and humbling assistance to
find a way of expression.
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