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Death. It's a topic most of us prefer to keep away from. Except that is if you work

impalative care. For the doctors and nurses who look after us when we're dying,

death is an everyday occurrence. They comfort their patients navigating sorrow, fear and pain, but also help them to find love,

beauty and joy in the time they have left.

One NHS palliative care doctor who's written about some of these heartbreaking and profound experiences. a living and more recently just what it was like to work inside the NHS during the COVID pandemic.

There are more people being treated for COVID in hospitals throughout the UK than at any point in the pandemic.

Now she's once again facing up to tragedy,

supporting those trying to provide palliative care in Ukraine.

This hospital unit in Kyve used to treat stroke victims, its purpose expanded when more broke out.

So today I'm speaking to Rachel about what dying can teach the living, what we can learn from the COVID pandemic,

and the anguish and defiance of providing a dignified death in the midst of war.

I'm the Guardian Science Editor Ian's sample and this is Science Weekly. Rachel Clark, you're a palliative care doctor and author, and your job, I guess in some sense, is to ensure people die in the best way possible, if I can put it that way. I mean what does that mean to you? What does a good death look like?

Well I think in a way, Ian, it's a controversial concept, a good death. It sounds as though somehow with the cloak of palliative care and the word

palliare is the Latin meaning to cloak, you can kind of disguise the dying process to such an

extent that it's good in inverted commas and I believe very strongly that there is an inevitability of suffering around the fact that we are all one day going to die.

That entails an enormous amount of loss. But aside from that, there's an unnecessary aspect, by which I mean symptoms, pain, breathlessness and so on.

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