True compassion and hope at the end of life is about courage and vulnerability
True compassion at the end of life is about being able to sit with struggle of not having answers. Photograph: Tom HonanAs a chaplaincy supervisor and educator, I often find myself reminding my students that the patients we encounter are our best teachers if we are open to learning from them.
Such thoughts of assisted dying downgrade the importance of the long-established palliative care approach to caring for the dying when we choose to play God and try to control death.Meet Taylor Swift’s superfans: ‘You feel like she’s a part of your life that you can’t do away with’ Such an approach neither sanitises nor seeks to control or eradicate suffering but in contrast offers a pathway of pastoral care that drives compassionate and hope-filled accompaniment.
Mary was full of courage but she was also afraid of dying, sad that she was leaving young adult children behind her who were very much in the prime of their lives, but certain she was going home to God. I “suffered with” Mary as she faced the reality that she was dying, that every day could have been her last.
To draw from the American writer Brene Brown, “when we are looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, able to bend and most of all someone who embraces us for our strengths and struggles”.
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