Editorial: Engaging with Society
Christians are to engage with the people and the culture as insiders and participants, not as critical and dissociated outsiders. This requires them to stand beside people at their point of need and to be prepared to accompany them.
The Hospice Movement in New Zealand 25 Years On
The hospice movement has transformed, and continues to transform, the care of the dying and their families. This article recalls how, from small beginnings, the hospice movement in New Zealand has grown into forty-two hospice programmes. It also highlights some ongoing challenges for this movement; preserving the vision, the assisted suicide debate, ongoing education and research and the challenge of funding.
The Voice of Your Despair
We all need to be made fully aware of the possibilities of enhancing the quality of life until its natural end. A reflection by Rod MacLeod (Professor in Palliative Care at the University of Otago) on palliative care in New Zealand in the wake of the Lesley Martin trial that asks the questions: What have we learned? What has changed?
Palliative Medication: The Need for Common Sense
Written by an experienced Clinical Pharmacist, Anne Denton F.P.S., this piece surfaces some honest and probing questions about the decision making processes within New Zealand regarding the availability of specialised drugs for those who are dying. An investigation of two of the key questions that have emerged in the current debate about organ donation in New Zealand: What sort of consent is required? Should an individual's wishes always be followed?
Making a Life-Saving Difference: Organ Donation and Consent
An investigation of two of the key questions that have emerged in the current debate about organ donation in New Zealand: What sort of consent is required? Should an individual's wishes always be followed?