A father who simply set out to change his habits, but a disastrous accident flipped his world upside down. In 2017, Rae Saleem became paralysed from the neck down following a cycling accident, and was told that he would never walk again.
Susan Laurie shares her deeply personal struggle with alcohol dependence, vividly describing it as a dark shadow akin to the one from the film "Ghost".
It is terrifying to accept death at any age, but at just 23, Zahra Khaliq had accepted that she was going to die after being hit by Covid, leaving her in excruciating pain.
As a photographer working for a newspaper, Phil Coburn said that he felt almost protected whilst covering the war in Afghanistan, comparing his camera to a shield.
In 2010, whilst covering the war in Afghanistan, Phil Coburn was travelling in a US Marine armoured personnel carrier with his Mirror colleague Rupert Hamer. The vehicle was hit by a Taliban bomb attack, killing Rupert and a US Marine.
After walking from a school assembly, joined by her husband and two young daughters, Claire Clark was struck by a motorcycle, and suffered a catastrophic brain injury.
On a bitterly cold night in January, sitting on a bridge in London, Jonny Benjamin was prepared to take his life. After years of mental health struggles, and stay on a mental health ward, he had given up.
