First, most medications that individuals take will have some type of side effects. In addition, that’s without patients on their death bed already being heavily medicated so they can remain comfortable. In which those mediations probably already make them sick, queasy, or push them further into depression. According to Karsoho, Fishman, Wright, and Macdonald (2016), Saunders founded the first modern hospice, St. Christopher's Hospice, in London, UK, in 1967. She actually wanted to “improve and extend medical care at the end of life. The debate of course was around the precise form which this medicine should take.”
