1. This Doctor Wants to Humanize Death
This short documentary from The New York Times is heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. It profiles Dr. Nadia Tremonti, who made it her mission to help families cope with the worst that can happen to them: losing a child to an illness. Watch it now.
2. The meaning of Moria: what we must learn from the refugee camp’s fires
For one thing, the refugee camp in Moria is a symbol for Europe’s hypocrisy (as pointed out in an earlier issue). In the age of Covid-19, however, it also symbolises something that goes beyond Europe. «In the early weeks of the Covid-19 outbreak», Jeremy Cliffe writes in the New Statesman, «it seemed like the pandemic might serve as the definitive illustration of humanity’s interdependence.» As it stands now, he concludes, the pandemic hasn’t been «the wake-up call the world needed, much as it should have been.» Read it now.