More and more rays of sunlight find their way through the branches of the trees. Alexandra Saßenberg looks out into the greenery and the sunrise. She savours moments like these. They confirm her decision to move to the hospice at Ostpark in Dortmund. The 52-year-old has an incurable lung disease. "Here I can consciously make the most of the time I have left," she says.
Alexandra Saßenberg visited the Bethel hospice with her son (16) and daughter (13) early on and gained a positive impression. Before she moved in, she placed them with her divorced husband. Giving up the children was the hardest decision of her life. "But now I can no longer fulfil my responsibility as a mother," she says.
