Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

Xu traveled to different places to see the world and take photos. CHINA DAILY Xu also learned aromatherapy to massage concentrated plant-based oils onto patients' skin to help them relax and sleep. Another important thing volunteers must learn is to express their care and love through eye contact and body language. Xu recalls that a middle-aged patient whose mother kept asking nurses to change his bed sheets. "At the palliative care unit, I learned to respect every life that will soon pass on.

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Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

The cover of Xu's Book Chongqi Shengming that recorded her experiences and thoughts related to death, hospice care and life. Beijing Haidian Hospital became one of China's first to provide professional palliative care in hematology and oncology in July of that year. And Qin Yuan, a professor of palliative care at the hospital, happened to live in the same apartment …

Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

Xu Shu delivers a lecture, in October, about her thoughts on death as a cancer patient and a hospice care volunteer at Peking University. CHINA DAILY A woman's experience of losing her mother and a cancer diagnosis launched a quest of understanding that ultimately inspired a journey to become a hospice volunteer and, consequently, an author, Yang Yang reports. On …

Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

Xu Shu delivers a lecture, in October, about her thoughts on death as a cancer patient and a hospice care volunteer at Peking University. CHINA DAILY A woman's experience of losing her mother and a cancer diagnosis launched a quest of understanding that ultimately inspired a journey to become a hospice volunteer and, consequently, an author, Yang Yang reports. On …

Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

Xu's experience as a hospice volunteer encouraged her to reflect on her life and she started doing things she was interested in. She learned to take photos with drones and in September Xu operated a drone over a prairie in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Many readers comment that they're inspired by the writer's thoughts on life and death, and …

Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

From 2020 to 2022, Xu volunteered to look after cancer patients in the palliative care unit of Beijing Haidian Hospital. And when she was not sure, she turned to Qin and Professor Ning Xiaohong from the palliative care unit of Peking Union Medical College Hospital. "When a family member is going to die, be generous and give him or her …

Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

Xu's experience as a hospice volunteer encouraged her to reflect on her life and she started doing things she was interested in. She learned to take photos with drones and in September Xu operated a drone over a prairie in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Many readers comment that they're inspired by the writer's thoughts on life and death, and …

Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

Xu Shu delivers a lecture, in October, about her thoughts on death as a cancer patient and a hospice care volunteer at Peking University. CHINA DAILY A woman's experience of losing her mother and a cancer diagnosis launched a quest of understanding that ultimately inspired a journey to become a hospice volunteer and, consequently, an author, Yang Yang reports. On …

Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

Xu Shu delivers a lecture, in October, about her thoughts on death as a cancer patient and a hospice care volunteer at Peking University. CHINA DAILY A woman's experience of losing her mother and a cancer diagnosis launched a quest of understanding that ultimately inspired a journey to become a hospice volunteer and, consequently, an author, Yang Yang reports. On …

Dying with dignity, living with love
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dying with dignity, living with love

China Daily  

From 2020 to 2022, Xu volunteered to look after cancer patients in the palliative care unit of Beijing Haidian Hospital. And when she was not sure, she turned to Qin and Professor Ning Xiaohong from the palliative care unit of Peking Union Medical College Hospital. "When a family member is going to die, be generous and give him or her …

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