SRF journalist Mona Vetsch visits the hospice for the dead in St. Gallen for the report series “Mona in the Middle”. There she meets the former sports teacher Heidi Steiner in Villa Jacob. There are nine hospices for the dead in Switzerland.
Vetsch also meets the seriously ill computer scientist Nicolas Kressig in the hospice. Kressig was born in 1979 and suffered from a tumor.
Mona Vetsch in conversation with hospice patient Doris Niederer, she has cancer.
Raoul Pinter is the head doctor of the Palliative Care Hospice in Saint Gallen. The facility has nine rooms for residents.
Sarah Krüsi Leber (l.), is a nurse in the hospice. She has been working in palliative care for 15 years.
“Mona in the middle”: SRF star Mona Vetsch visits a hospice for the dead
SRF journalist Mona Vetsch visits the hospice for the dead in St. Gallen for the report series “Mona in the Middle”. There she meets the former sports teacher Heidi Steiner in Villa Jacob. There are nine hospices for the dead in Switzerland.
Vetsch also meets the seriously ill computer scientist Nicolas Kressig in the hospice. Kressig was born in 1979 and suffered from a tumor.
Mona Vetsch in conversation with hospice patient Doris Niederer, she has cancer.
Raoul Pinter is the head doctor of the Palliative Care Hospice in Saint Gallen. The facility has nine rooms for residents.
Sarah Krüsi Leber (l.), is a nurse in the hospice. She has been working in palliative care for 15 years.
Mona Vetsch spent three intensive days in the St. Gallen hospice for the report series “Mona in the Middle”. Her conclusion: “The encounters made me realize how valuable life is.”
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- SRF star Mona Vetsch spent three days in the St. Gallen hospice for her TV documentary series “Mona in the Middle”.
- Mona Vetsch’s encounters with dying patients get under her skin. “Accompaniment by adults is recommended,” writes SRF on the episode “Farewell in the hospice – a dignified life until death.”
- “Mona in the middle” ran on SRF 1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 9 p.m. and is available online.
Mona Vetsch sometimes pushes herself to the limit for her report format “Mona in the middle”. It doesn’t matter whether the 49-year-old from Thurgau visits the neonatology, a psychiatric facility or a children’s cancer ward.
In the current episode “Mona in the Middle: Farewell in the Hospice,” Mona Vetsch meets people in the last phase of their lives.
The Villa Jacob in Saint Gallen is a place of life and death, where joy and sadness have their place, writes SRF. Seriously ill and dying adults find a home here and are supported and accompanied in the last phase of their lives.
And Mona Vetsch immerses herself in this world for three days, meets the residents and talks to them about saying goodbye and death. Vetsch approaches the conversations with a lot of empathy, asks questions and sometimes elicits a laugh.
And the SRF woman pitches in, supports the team at Villa Jacob in their work and learns from nursing specialist Sarah Krüsi Leber: “Around 80 percent of all people would like to die at home, in reality it is around 20 percent.”
“Mona in the middle” shows the everyday life of the hospice for the dying in an unvarnished way, but with a lot of sensitivity.
It’s an episode that also demands a lot from Mona Vetsch: “It’s overwhelming me,” she says after briefly visiting a deceased person.
After three days in the hospice, Mona Vetsch sums up her time in St. Gallen as follows: “I am grateful for the encounters that made me realize how valuable life is – until the end.”
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