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Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life

Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life

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Stephen Sackur speaks to the palliative care doctor and writer

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Stephen Sackur speaks to the palliative care doctor and author
Rachel Clarke. She has written thought-provoking, moving accounts
of what it's like to be a junior doctor, and how it felt to
confront the Covid pandemic. But perhaps her most powerful book
focuses on a subject that many doctors, and the public, find it
difficult to discuss: Death. In Dear Life, she weaves together
the personal story of a daughter facing the terminal cancer
illness of her beloved father with that of a doctor who made a
deliberate choice to focus her care on the dying. In the process
of dying, which will of course be the fate of every one of us,
Rachel Clarke finds life lessons which we would all do well to
learn. She asks us to consider a tough question: can dying be
life affirming?