Cicely Saunders

Dame Cicely Saunders OM DBE FRCS FRCP FRCN
Saunders in 2002
Born	Cicely Mary Strode Saunders[1][2] (1918-06-22)22 June 1918 Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
Died	14 July 2005(2005-07-14) (aged 87) Bromley, London, England
Alma mater	St Thomas's Hospital Medical School St Anne's College, Oxford
Occupations	Nurse social worker physician writer
Known for	Hospice care movement, Founder of St Christophers Hospice
Spouse	Marian Bohusz-Szyszko ​ ​ (m. 1980; died 1995)​

Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders OM DBE FRCS FRCP FRCN (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 birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.