End-of-life caregivers say patients who are about to die often thank them in their final words and also wish that they didn't work their lives away.
Hospice nurse Julie McFadden says very often dying patients refer to family members as they prepare to draw their final breaths.
McFadden says that most times, the patients do not have a parting message like in movies.
The nurse says most often, their main regrets are the times they spent dieting and worrying about their looks.
She said they also hear dying patients mention loved ones, especially names of family members or their former lovers on their death bed.
"A lot of people will say their parents' names - or they'll say 'mum' or 'dad', or the name of an ex-husband who is dead already," he told MailOnline.
"If they do say something close to death, it's usually brief and short and quiet. It's hard to talk."
According to another expert, Dr. Mina Chang, patients will often say "I am ready" before passing away.
Dr. Chang, from the San Francisco Bay Area, said the most common thing she hears from such patients is that they have no regrets.
Dr Chang explained: "They will sometimes say words like "I am ready," or "I have no regrets" - and we often support the relationships between patients and their loved ones so we might hear words such as "Thank you” "I love you,” Please forgive me,” or "Good-bye."'
Some elderly ones often express their regret for taking their life for granted, Dr. Chang says.
Dr. Kathryn Mannix, a retired end-of-life doctor from Northumberland,
who specializes in palliative and end-of-life care describes the transition to death as a "process" mirroring birth.
Dr. Mannix says when the time comes it is "probably not as bad as you're expecting".
She encourages people to break the taboo around the subject by talking more about dying To make the whole journey much easier for the person who is about to pass on and their family.
Speaking to a short film for BBC Ideas she said: “In my humble opinion, dying is probably not as bad as you’re expecting.
“We’ve lost the rich wisdom of normal human dying and it’s time for us to talk about dying and reclaim the wisdom.
“Dying, like giving birth, really is just a process. Gradually people become more tired, more weary.
"As time goes by people sleep more and they’re awake less.”
Dr. Mannix disclosed that she has seen her patients slip in and out of consciousness as they get closer to the end of their lives and will often wake up and say they've had a "good sleep".
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