What do people say before death? Know in the nurse’s words

A hospice nurse from the US state of California has shared what she believes most people do before death.

Julie, who goes by her first name on social media, has been working as a hospice nurse in Los Angeles for the past five years and talks to people about death on TikTok.

Hospice care is the field of health care that focuses on relieving the terminal patient’s pain and symptoms and meeting their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life.

“I love educating patients and families about what to expect from hospitals and what to expect about the specific disease they’re dying from,” Jolie told The Sun. .’

‘I like to give patients and their families some comfort by letting them know that we will be there to manage the complications of the disease.’

She said she has been doing this for the past 14 years as she worked as a nurse in an intensive care unit for nine years before moving into the field of hospice care.

A registered nurse recently posted a video describing events that happen to most people before they die, including the color of a person’s skin, breathing pattern, and excretions. Fluids included.

He said that although these things seem unusual, they are quite normal at this (pre-death) stage.

Jolie said: ‘One of the things most people say before they die is usually ‘I love you’ or they call out to their mum or dad, who are usually already dead. are.’

He added that it is difficult to generalize what happens to people when they die because each person’s stage is unique.

However, he said that if someone is dying of natural causes in hospice care, most people have the same symptoms of dying.

Jolly said: ‘Symptoms of the actively dying stage include changes in consciousness, changes in breathing, mottling (discolouration of the skin) and secretion of terminal fluids. These symptoms are normal and not painful or uncomfortable.’

He added: ‘Our bodies take care of themselves at the end of life, the less we interfere the better.’

Jolie also discussed some of the ‘assumptions’ people make about hospice care, including that morphine causes death faster and that everyone in hospice care dies instantly. .

He said that these are false assumptions. Another thing that is not entirely true is that hospice care causes people to die.’