Twenty-six years ago, I held my mother’s hand as she died in a Marie Curie hospice. Three years ago, my husband Simon died in a hospice, calmly, somehow, after eight months of Covid-exacerbated trauma: a cancer diagnosis, multiple treatment complications and a stroke.
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