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Sarah Mitchell (left) and her mother Wendy.

Sarah’s mum starved herself to death. It was the only legal way for her to go

Wendy Mitchell spent a decade educating people about living with dementia. Now her daughter wants to tell us about how she died, and why it didn’t have to be that way.

  • by Michael Bachelard
Angela Osei-Boadu has experienced phantom leg pain since her amputation five years ago.
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Why Angela feels unbearable pain from a leg that is no longer there

An unbearable electric current shoots down Angela’s left leg. She reaches down to rub it, but there’s no leg there.

  • by Kate Aubusson
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