#OnThisDay 1918: Cicely Saunders, one of the originators of the hospice movement, was born in Barnet. In 1974, she spoke to David Frost about her work. #Cicely100 | BBC Archive

"You matter because you are you. You matter to the last moment of your life…” words from the Christian founder of the modern hospice movement, Dame Cicely Saunders, discover her inspirational story on this week’s #SongsOfPraise. This Sunday 11 February on BBC One at 1.15pm and afterwards here bbc.in/3KACBA2 | BBC Songs of Praise

In London in the 1960s, Cicely Saunders, a medical doctor and social worker with a compassion for the dying, introduced a radical new way to treat the terminally ill. Motivated by her reading of Psalm 37, she called it "hospice care." | Museum of the Bible

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