Children's hospice

A typical children's hospice service offers:[citation needed] Children's hospice services work with families from all faiths, cultures and ethnic backgrounds and respect the importance of religious customs and cultural needs that are essential to the daily lives of each family.

[1] They provide flexible, practical and free support at home and in the hospice to the entire family, often over many years and at any stage of the child's or young person's illness.

[3] Children's hospice services in England receive an average of 5% government funding and rely heavily on public donations.

The main factors that parents take into consideration when making end-of-life care decisions are the importance to advocate for the best interest of their child.

The original voices brought to the table of discussion of ethic committees were Theologians, philosophers, social scientists, scholars in the humanities and other experts.

In the early 1970s many experts realized that the medical education was not designed and physicians were not trained to deal with ethical issues associated with new technologies such as mechanical ventilation, dialysis and transplantation.

Before the creation of such technology kidney failure was sure to be fatal, now physicians were starting to make choices about where, when, and how someone could die.

One of the solutions was to invite theologians, philosophers and social scientist that would help physicians think and solve complicated ethical issues.