Overview

• Mount died on Sept. 25 in the Balfour Mount Palliative Care Unit at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital, according to tributes from McGill University.
• He launched the world's first hospital palliative care unit and service in 1975 in Montreal, a model McGill calls a template for global practice.
• He coined the term "palliative care" as he adapted the British hospice approach to hospitals in Canada’s bilingual context.
• After training with Dame Cicely Saunders in the U.K., he advanced stronger pain control and a compassionate, whole-person approach to end-of-life care.
• His legacy includes founding McGill’s biennial congress on terminal care, holding the Eric M. Flanders Chair, opposing physician-assisted dying, and receiving national honors including the Order of Canada and induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.