Welcome to the Case Stories Project Website
Case stories is a transdisciplinary project on migration, dying and care. Using oral histories, stories and art, the aim is to better understand the pain of social exclusion and to build a digital archive of experiences of transnational dying. The site is developing with the project.
Image Nadia Bettega
Transnational Dying and Pain
A survivor of a concentration camp pushes away a nasal tube that is delivering her oxygen. The tube brings up traumatic memories. An Indian teacher, dying from cancer, looks back on his life and feels humiliation and hurt at not being able to get a teaching job in the UK and of having to work as a bus driver. His hospice nurse asks ‘What can I say to him that is going to make a difference?'
Image Nadia Bettega
Case Stories
Tony, a Rastafarian, was nearing the end of his life in an urban hospice. Tony, 'on the basis of his beliefs, had refused conventional cancer treatment such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy’ and ‘was adamant that he did not wish any opiates or western medical painkillers.'
