The in-between living, dying and death.

A palliative nurse discussing the taboo of dying, why we struggle speaking about it and experiences that I think will resonate and help other people out there realise talking about death and dying isn’t meant to be easy and we have an obligation as humans to have this conversation.

Also blogs and topics include:

’Substance Abuse and Cancer’

‘Don’t use the word dying please’

A palliatives patients family

Palliative care emergencies

Palliative care symptom control

When does symptom control turn into terminal care

To hospitalise or not ?

Who do you palliate in a pandemic ?

Is palliative care becoming too progressional ?

The role of survivorship in palliative care

Illustration by Daniel Lievano

Illustration by Daniel Lievano