Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Cicely Saunders, fully Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders

English Anglican Nurse, Physician and Writer known for birth of the Hospice Movement and Palliative Care

"I think very soon the right to die will become the duty to die."

"You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die."