12.10.2024 World Hospice Day

Since the very beginning, the hospice movement has stood for solidarity and diversity. Volunteers and full-time staff accompany seriously ill and dying people regardless of age, nationality, religion, social background, physical or mental abilities, sexual orientation or gender. They accompany people who have life stories that are sometimes characterised by limitations and problems due to inequality, which can lead to existential needs being jeopardised. And where, if not at the end of life, are existential needs at stake? And especially against the backdrop of current social developments, it is essential to stand up for human kindness and acceptance – a real acceptance that goes beyond the much-vaunted tolerance as mere toleration or bearing of something that is actually unwanted and is the basis of respectful behaviour.