MONTRÉAL — Dr. Balfour Mount, widely recognized as the father of palliative care, is being remembered for his contribution to revolutionizing how people live out their final days.

Mount died on Sept. 25 in the palliative care unit that bears his name at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. He was 86.

McGill University paid tribute this week to Mount, who it said in 1975 launched the world’s first palliative care unit and service in Montreal. The university described the feat as “a groundbreaking initiative that became the template for global practice.”

“Dr. Mount coined the term ‘palliative care’ to designate this novel combination of British hospice, American thanatology and Canadian academic medicine,” the university wrote.

Mount was born in Ottawa. He studied medicine at Queen’s

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