This event is open to health care professionals and the public.   Kathryn Mannix has spent 40 years working in cancer management and palliative care: her book is the result of “half a lifetime of keeping company with the dying”. She argues that with better nutrition and healthcare, in which “the machinery of life preservation” is often deployed to prevent the inevitable, people have lost touch with the “patterns” of dying and “the sequences of the deathbed”. She reveals the…