2025-06-16
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You can let go now.
Inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain by Line Wobben.
Read by Freja Miller.
Rene Damgaard, 67, lies in a hospital bed in the palliative care unit at Vido Hospital outside Copenhagen.
It's the first evening of May and the window is open.
letting mild air and the sound of a blackbird singing into the room.
This is the kind of weather you love the most.
When you usually stand and fish at the sandbank, says his niece, 53-year-old Meda Damgo.
She's leaning over the bed, her face very close to his.
She's been sitting like this for a long time.
René has his eyes closed and his mouth is slightly open.
The evening light falls across his gaunt face, and he looks as though he's sleeping.
He's not.
He's dying.
I will take care of you, Meda whispers.
He nods.
She strokes his hand and squeezes it.