Biography
Biography: Goisis Antonella
Abstract
“What to do with the dying?” it's a daily question for me, because I have been dealing with this problem for 34 years, the first 18 of which as a medical oncologist and the last 16 as a palliative doctor in the Hospice of the Casa di Cura “Beato Palazzolo”, the first Hospice to be opened in Bergamo in 2000. Over these 16 years I have cared for 3,300 patients in the last phase of their life, often sitting by their bedside and watching over them as they died. I think we have three choices: to remove death, to abolish the dying, to accompany the dying in such a way as to enable them to experience death as the last stage of their growth. So, what can we do? We must learn to be able to understand their needs and to stay with them and their families, protecting the uniqueness of their person in the face of an imminent death.