"I am lucky enough to see the absolute best of human nature," she says. "It just makes me feel our species infuriating, though it may be, is also miraculous." She writes about her experiences in the COVID pandemic and how that crisis hit palliative care.
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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