When my dear spouse John died in 2013, he had spent just four days in the palliative care unit at the south end of PRHC.

With such gifted people as Dr. John Beamish and nurse Theresa Morris, he and his loved ones were well taken care of.

On his last day, although he was comatose, he was visited by 19 of our friends saying farewell and pledging to see to my needs in the future. Our son Paul was able to go home with a quilt made and given by the Kawartha Quilters.

Because of that positive experience, I didn’t get involved in the campaign for a standalone hospice for Peterborough, which started in 2019, though I believed in it, and watched it go up on London Street.

Not until that wonderful Doors Open municipal project this fall did I get to visit Peterborough’s hospice, welcomed by executive director, Hajni Hos. This remarkable person was known to me, as she, a lawyer by training, and her husband........

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