As a nurse with hospice experience in palliative care and years of experience as a lecturer in end-of-life care, I have been dealing with dying and death for a long time.

Already as a pediatric nurse in oncology, I learned about the significance of dying processes and how important they are for family structures. During the five years I spent delivering babies in the delivery room at the university hospital Basel, and not least during the birth of my first child, I experienced how closely birth and death are linked and how they can coincide.

As a mother of three children and a grandmother since 2018, I also answer children's questions about dying and death. Death encounters us in many ways, even in nature, as part of life.

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Death has been the greatest teacher in my life.
In the spirit of the Slavic proverb:

"It is the living who close the eyes of the dead.

It is the dead who open the eyes of the living."

Since January 2020, I have been working as a “voluntary assisted dying” nurse (VAD), and I am practiced in giving infusions.

I’ve been a member of Exit Switzerland for over 40 years. I’m aware of the relief and the good feeling of having the possibility of a self-determined and dignified death. Even at a young age, I considered this to enhance the quality of life.

I am committed to the right to die with dignity and am in favor of us being able to determine the time of our death ourselves, if we are suffering unbearably.

This work of the heart is first and foremost an honor for me.