My friend Clara Malagon-Gonzalez, who has taken her own life at the age of 22, was a critical care nurse at Manchester Royal Infirmary and a kind, bright and effervescent person who brought light and joy into many people’s lives. She had qualified as a nurse a year before her death, and was enormously proud to be working for the NHS. Clara was born in Twickenham, south-west London, to Spanish parents, Maria Gonzalez, a maths teacher, and Ignacio Malagon, a consultant anaesthetist. In 2013 she moved back to the UK to begin a degree in nursing at the University of Manchester. In her third year of university Clara took up cycling.

Source: The Guardian October 20, 2017 16:30 UTC