Night nurse enables terminally ill woman to fulfill wish to die at home

‘Having a night nurse meant that Mam got all of her wishes at the end, because she just wanted to be in her own bed, in her own home, with her own people around her’

When Una Leonard’s mother Pauline succumbed to a rare form of cancer earlier this year, the Irish Cancer Society’s night nurse enabled the family to honour her wish to die at home

By Andrea Smith