Neither patients, families nor staff are protected from sadness, but in sharing it as they do, they find that living and dying well are linked together and are constantly opening up new and creative possibilities.
Admission is free and no tickets are required.
This particular Beatty Lecture is a joint initiative of the Beatty Memorial Lectures Series and the Council on Palliative Care, with the Division of Palliative Care, Department of Oncology, McGill. Later in the week, on October 30, Dame Cicely Saunders will be honoured at Convocation in the presence of Canada's Governor General Romeo LeBlanc, who will also be awarded an honorary degree at Place des Arts. The work of Dame Cicely Saunders in Britain, where she opened the revolutionary St. Christopher's Hospice in 1967, has led to the recognition of a new specialty, Palliative Medicine. Cicely Saunders trained first as a nurse, then as a social worker. She later returned to studies, at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, to pursue medicine.