People come to the Germeringer hospice in their final weeks of life. The employees there do everything to give their guests and their families as much conscious time and joy as possible. A visit.
By Florian J. Haamann, Germering
Two guests are due to arrive today. A simple sentence that hides four human destinies. Because guests, at the Germeringer Hospice, are people who move in to experience their last weeks, months at best. “Someone has to die for a place to be free here,” says hospice manager Tina Lamprecht. Two guests are due to arrive today. Also means two people have died recently and two people will die soon. Lamprecht sits down at a table in the facility’s light-flooded dining area. There she conducts the interview with a man whose mother is one of the two new guests. She is 85 years old; Advanced bone cancer. “The last few weeks have been ups and downs,” says the man. “Into the hospital, back home, then suddenly nothing worked at all, within hours the burglary happened.”