One day, while on duty, she heard the voice of a dying patient in her head.
Hospice patient was afraid of death
Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient’s pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering.
In other words, hopeless patients who know that they are going to die soon end up in the hospice. Among Julie’s wards was a middle-aged man who was very afraid of dying.
For some reason, many people believe that death is associated with unbearable pain, or at least with very strong negative feelings. Although, in fact, the sensations before death are individual for everyone, many do not even “notice” the transition to the other side and easily die in their sleep.
“Our team had a lot of conversations with him about death, over time we became very close friends,” says Julie....<<<Read More>>>....