Editing Cicely Saunders (section)

{{Short description|English nurse, social worker, physician and writer}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific-prefix   = 
| name               = Dame Cicely Saunders
| honorific_suffix   = {{postnominals|country=GBR|OM|DBE|FRCS|FRCP|FRCN|size=100%}}
| image              = EWS21.13.jpg
| caption            = Saunders in 2002
| birth_name         = Cicely Mary Strode Saunders<ref name="birth">''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007''</ref><ref name="death">''England and Wales, Death Index, 1989–2018''</ref>
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=yes|1918|6|22}}
| birth_place        = [[Chipping Barnet|Barnet]], [[Hertfordshire]], England
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=yes|2005|7|14|1918|6|22}}
| death_place        = [[Bromley, London]], England
| alma_mater         = [[St Thomas's Hospital Medical School]]<br/>[[St Anne's College, Oxford]]
| occupation         = {{hlist|Nurse|social worker|physician|writer}}
| known_for          = [[hospice care|Hospice care movement]], Founder of [[St Christophers Hospice]]
| spouse             = {{marriage|Marian Bohusz-Szyszko|1980|1995|end=died}}
}}
'''Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders''' (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the [[Hospice#Rise of the modern hospice movement|birth of the hospice movement]], emphasising the importance of [[Palliative care#History|palliative care]] in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of [[voluntary euthanasia]].