The Woman Helping Mongolians Die with Dignity

June 23, 2017

(BBC) – The idea of palliative or end-of-life care, to support people in the last months or years of their life, was well established in other countries. But in Mongolia, home of the conqueror Genghis Khan, where nomads have lived and died by the harsh conditions of the landscape for millennia, it was entirely unknown. Then a trip to Sweden in 2000, to attend a European Palliative Care Association conference, opened Davaasuren’s eyes and eventually helped her make Mongolia a better place to die.