I’m a hospice nurse. Here’s what people get wrong about dying — and the 3 biggest mistakes we make when people are grieving

Kath Murray gets the same reaction whenever she tells people what she does for a living: There’s an awkward silence, a sympathetic head tilt and the inevitable response of “that must be so hard.” “There’s never been a job where I’ve had so much laughter,” says Murray, a hospice nurse and palliative care educator based…

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‘Makes me want to scream from the rooftops’

Beaches in contemporary times are dominated by litter. One estimate suggests that over 9.7 million litter items populate beaches across the world’s coastlines, a figure that may well be higher now that it’s been four years since the research. Beachgoers are constantly inundated with litter, a stark reality that not only ruins the lush, beautiful…

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