Thank God, at last we can control

Thank God, at last we can control. David Mowbray* (1938- ). Written in 1992, this text grew from the writer’s personal experience and pastoral work in the Hertford and then Darley Abbey (Derby) parishes which he served as incumbent, notably his ministry among the dying and bereaved. He came to appreciate terminal care, including pain control and prevention, valuing particularly the seminal work of the pioneer of the modern hospice movement, Dame Cicely Saunders (1918-2005) who founded St Christopher’s Hospice in South East London. Of those who are dying, she wrote for those closest to them, ‘We accompany them as far as we can go. Then we have to let them go, knowing they will be met’. These...