As a follow up to our article, What Matters Most at the End of Life, we were delighted to be asked by Martlets Hospice to support their winter fundraising campaign by producing a short video about Jane’s brother’s end of life care.
To date the video has helped raise over £80,000, all of which will go to the support of families facing death, dying and bereavement.
As we’ve said before, hospices survive mostly on donations from the public. The state funds only a third of their budgets. Hospices provide essential palliative and end of life care to 300,000 people every year – care that prevents people who are dying from the trauma of inappropriate transfers, spending hours in A+E or feeling stuck on a hospital ward.
We are proud to help Martlets with this video, but feel it’s so wrong that they should rely on the voluntary sector to provide what is basically a human right to die in dignity.