SA can't offer dying patients palliative care, but it can offer them death
Daily Maverick | 22.06.2026 02:20
A 17-year-old with end-stage liver cancer went to the school dance. She got a phone. She visited the beach for the first time. She got weaker. She Instagrammed photos of her new shirt. She got thin. She WhatsApped her friends. She spent the last few months of her life mostly in bed. Her mother took a month off work to take care of her. After six months, she died.
