‘You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In a Danish palliative care unit, the alternative to assisted dying is not striving to cure – offering relief and comfort to patients and their families By Line Vaaben. Read by Freya Miller. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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