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Truth Without Fear
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I make the dying sign off with dignity, says nurse

Mercy Njeri (pictured) is not scared of death. When a patient is critically sick, relatives start whispering about the impending end, with some running away from the reality of mortality. But Njeri finds herself as the woman who whispers words of consolation to the patient. As a palliative care nurse who cares for critical and terminally ill patients, she has seen more deaths than she cares to count.

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