Choosing to die at home

Despite the fact that the majority in surveys express a wish to die at home, this is increasingly difficult with the disappearance of the extended family and the loss of sense of neighbourhood.

The Natural Death Centre in the UK was founded to confront taboos about death and primarily to support families with a dying person at home.

Terminally ill Belgians who want to die at home will receive 19,500 BEF a month from the beginning of 2000.