Do patients ever want to know what dying will be like? I think that's very often one of the least voiced concerns that patients have. My job is to help them live the life that remains to them as beautifully as is humanly possible. We are so incredibly lucky to have every second that we live in this beautiful, spectacular world around us.
Ian Sample talks to Dr Rachel Clarke about her experience working in palliative care in the NHS and now with hospices in Ukraine. She tells him what dying can teach the living, what we can learn from the Covid pandemic, and reveals the anguish and defiance of trying to provide a dignified death in the midst of war. Help support our independent journalism at
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