Produced by Darren Taylor
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![Dreams of casting a fly along the banks of a river in KwaZulu-Natal are ended for Peter Cunnington. He has an inoperable colon cancer but is writing two books. "Hang on. There's more in me yet." (Photo by Darren Taylor)]()
March 16, 2015Planning the rest of his life
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March 13, 2015Death by Disease Haunts South Africa
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![Evelyn Itumeleng is confined to a wheelchair in her Kagiso home west of Johannesburg. She is one of hundreds of thousands of South Africans suffering from infectious and non-commuicable diseases. (Photo by Darren Taylor)]()
March 13, 2015A terminal atmosphere
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![Wits Hospice palliative care specialist Cameron Hogg says most people, including health professionals, stay as far away from hospices for as long as possible. (VOA / D. Taylor)]()
February 06, 2015Breaking South Africa's Death Taboo
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![At a patient's daughter's wedding, Cameron Hogg said a nurse loaned her wedding ring. When the priest asked who gives away the bride, the proud father pulled off his oxygen mask and said, "I do." (VOA / D. Taylor)<br />
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January 29, 2015Secrets Unfold in Hospice
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![A woman who had been abandoned came to Diepkloof Hospice. Rachel Mabena was shocked. "Maggots coming out of the orifices... They were on the face... That day I could not sleep." (VOA / D.Taylor)]()
January 29, 2015Surviving the Death that Surrounds
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![Rian Venter holds purple sachets, syringes and a plastic sheath that moments ago contained a lactate solution used by a doctor giving intravenous relief to a patient with a life-threatening liver condition at West Gauteng Hospice. (VOA / D. Taylor)]()
January 28, 2015Witness to the Final Hour
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![Rian Venter is a palliative care nurse in South Africa and director of West Gauteng Hospice. "Everyone has a right to a better quality life in their final days,” he says. (VOA / D. Taylor)]()
January 27, 2015Nurses who are drawn to death
