Gerry Lougheed, founder of the Maison McCulloch Hospice Foundation, shares thoughts on why Ontario’s palliative care system needs more support
A Gary Larson Far Side cartoon had two caterpillars watching a flying butterfly with the one caterpillar commenting “You will never catch me flying one of those things.”
Time, soul, grace, growth, elegance, expansion, lightness, surrender, transition, expression, celebration, resurrection, vulnerability.In many cultures, the butterfly is associated with the soul. From the Roman sculpture depicting a butterfly exiting the mouth of a dead man, representing the Roman belief that the soul leaves the body through the mouth, to the ancient Christian tombs in Rome with an illustrated Risen Christ holding a butterfly.
When the world’s “greatest” Mohammed Ali died in 2016 – his obituary included the words “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”The gift of memory is the legacy that loved ones leave with us. If you want someone to be dead, it’s very simple — just don’t ever say their name again. But every time we say their name, they are still with us.
Sadly, hospice care in Ontario is underfunded. I don’t believe it’s fair that if you are a patient in Health Science North’s palliative care unit the government pays all the expenses, but if you are at the hospice the generosity of people buying butterflies, hiking for the hospice, pledging at the Care-a-thon, or supporting community special events is required to pay a portion of the operational expenses.
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