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Living with DyingArrow
Age 71-80
Interview 23  

Interview 23

Age at Interview: 76
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 74
Background: Housewife, widow, 4 children
Brief outline:Breast cancer diagnosed in 2001, followed by a mastectomy, radiotherapy and chemotherapy


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She would prefer to die in the hospice, where she had experienced good care, love, and laughter.

 



If you had a choice between going into hospital, going into the bedded unit at the hospice or staying at home and being looked after at home, what would you like best?

Well I think I'd like to go to the hospice really. Yes. I think that would be more convenient for everybody and myself. They're so good there.. They don't fuss you lots, but they see to everything you need. And  we all have so much laughing and you know that's, that's half of the battle isn't it?

Yes oh it is yes.

Yes we all have a laugh and I mean we're all in the same boat and we always find something to laugh about..

It sounds like a lovely atmosphere.

Yes it is a lovely atmosphere, nobody can describe, nobody can describe it until they've been there.
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