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Dying at Home

Barbara Summers is raising money for Marie Curie
“Barbara Summers's fundraising”

on 6 September 2011

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RCN 207994 (England & Wales), SC038731 (Scotland)
Marie Curie provides care and support for people living with any terminal illness across the UK. Our nurses work night and day in people’s homes and our hospices offer specialist care. We also support people emotionally, provide practical information, and match them with trained volunteers.

Story

<p> <p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: &#39;Tempus Sans ITC&#39;; color: #800080;">Where do you want to spend your last days? &ndash; given the choice I personally would prefer to die at home.</span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: #808080;">"The majority of people, if&nbsp;facing a terminal illness,&nbsp;would prefer to die in their&nbsp;own home. However, only&nbsp;around a quarter of people&nbsp;have that final wish fulfilled.</span></p> </p> <p><span style="color: #808080;"><strong>Marie Curie Cancer Care</strong> provides high quality nursing, totally&nbsp;free, to give people with terminal cancer and other illnesses&nbsp;the choice of dying at home, supported by their families." &nbsp;</span></p> <p> <p><span style="color: #808080;"><strong><em>You&rsquo;re making&nbsp;a big difference</em></strong> -&nbsp;</span></p> <p> <p> <p><strong>E<span style="color: #808080;">very &pound;20</span></strong><span style="color: #808080;"> will fund a Marie Curie&nbsp;Nurse for one hour to care for a&nbsp;terminally ill patient in their own&nbsp;home.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #808080;"><strong>&pound;160</strong> will pay for a whole shift&nbsp;for a Marie Curie Nurse to be there to&nbsp;support a patient and their carer for a&nbsp;whole day or night.</span></p> </p> </p> <p> <p><span style="color: #808080;"><strong>&pound;12,000</strong>&nbsp;needs to be raised&nbsp;every hour of every day to fund their&nbsp;work.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;">Only a quarter of all terminally&nbsp;ill cancer patients in the UK currently&nbsp;die at home. &nbsp;Marie Curie Nurses&nbsp;care for half of them - but they want&nbsp;to reach more.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #008000;"><em>Your donation will help make this a reality for ALL.</em></span></strong></p> </p> </p> </p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"><em>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</em></span></p> <p><span style="color: #808080;"><em>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</em></span></p> <p><span style="color: #800080;"><em>So please dig deep and donate now.</em></span></p>

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