It’s often the time for the person to make a “life record”.
The end of life is a heartbreaking period generally marked by a gradual degradation of health. It can last a few days, weeks or months, sometimes more, depending on the medical and personal situation. It’s often the time for the person to make a “life”, to reconcile with his loved ones, to ask for “forgiveness” or to make peace with himself. Also, many people think back to their existence, their choices, their successes or their regrets and result from very strong emotions.
“”Among the patients that I accompany until their end of life, many who tell me not to have enjoyed enough things of life, like being able to walk, to be able to see, which is not the case for everyone, to be able to feel the sun on his skinsays Julie McFadden, nurse in palliative care in California and founder of a YouTube channel dedicated to the theme of death.
“”But the biggest regret that dying people share me is: I should have better appreciated my health and love my body as it was, when it worked“, she reveals on the podcast Disruptors Hosted by Rob Moore. Health is often perceived as an achievement, a “canvas background” on which we build his life. When you are in good health, you can spend a lot of time wanting more money, more love, more recognition … But when health begins to weaken, these things lose their importance and you realize how simplely move, walking, breathing without pain, eating with appetite, sleeping, are precious. “”By extension, people often regret having pushed back their retirement, they say they would have preferred not to have to work all their lives and wait for retirement to really do what animated them“, She continues.
So before it was too late, the palliative care nurse insists on the gratitude of life and the consciousness of the present. “”As much as possible, do not take your vitality for acquired. Live while you are alive, thank your body, “she insists. When the stress and vagaries of life propel us into an automatic routine, we must think of reconnecting to what is “Good here and now”, To look at life with new, curious eyes, and to enhance the little things.
