Nurse in hospice shares the most common last words
What you might not know about me is that I have a huge fear of death. And like with everything I have an extreme fear of, I want to know as much as possible about it. And that is difficult in the case of dying, because there are not exactly experts who can tell you how it is and how it feels — it is quite a one-time event in someone's life that you can't really recount. Of course, there are near-death experiences and I obsessively sift through those, just like people who were declared clinically dead but still survived.
Last week, I ended up on the Instagram of hospice nurse Julie McFadden, who goes by hospicenursejulie on Instagram. She has been documenting all her experiences at work on Instagram and TikTok for years and has gained 203K followers on Instagram and even 1.3 million on TikTok. She has been doing this work for over fifteen years now, so you could say she has experienced almost everything.
Impressive, if you can do this work without breaking down. It seems so intense to be constantly surrounded by people who are in the final phase of their lives. You see so much sadness and pain… Pff, I couldn't do it.
But Julie is happy and she shares so many of her interesting findings and observations. For example, she shares in a video what by far the most people say before they die. Better said: there are two things that occur the most.
‘There is something that most people say just before they die and it is usually ‘I love you’ or they call for their mother or father — who are usually already deceased.’ In a way, that is also a beautiful observation, that in your last moments you still want to express your love and think of your parents, but maybe this is also a poor comfort that I tell myself to vainly reduce my fear.
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Image: After life, Netflix
