The sophis nurse explains why we need to talk about death/hospicenursejulie
Does death scare you?
Here are some things that might calm you down.
Julie McFadden, a hospice nurse who has cared for many patients before they die, said that there are 4 common phenomena concerning what people see before they die.
Some of the phenomena will sound familiar to you, especially from various hospital series such as "Grey's Anatomy", only that McFadden claims that they repeat themselves so many times in her patients, that there must be some scientific basis for this that has not been sufficiently studied to date.
Julie McFadden, a nurse from Los Angeles, posted a TikTok video under the username @hospicenursejulie, in which she explained that as doctors they don't know what makes these things happen, "but we know they happen often enough that we explain to families about them."
So, what are the four phenomena that happen before a person dies?
Visions
in the past She explained in a YouTube video that a vision is when a living person sees a loved one who has already passed away or has conversations with them a few weeks before death.
Jolie said it's "the most common thing we see" in the medical field and that families usually don't believe her and think she's trying to convince them there is life after death.
Julie is adamant that this is a real phenomenon: "I'm just explaining something that really happens almost every time at the end of life."
Julie McFadden explains about visions and the "death stare":
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The recovery
Those who watched the earlier seasons of "Grey's Anatomy" probably remember Mark Sloan's surprising recovery just before he - spoiler alert - died.
So it turns out that Julie claims that this happens to "about 30 percent of all our patients."
This is a short burst of energy that looks like the patient is recovering, but in fact he gets a burst of energy for a few days at most before he dies.
Although no one knows exactly why this happens to some patients, it is a common enough phenomenon to warn visiting families of what this means and to explain that optimism should be cautious.
Touching death
According to Julie McFadden, this is a phenomenon of a person reaching out "as if he sees someone, grabs or hugs him", just before he dies.
That is, the dying person really "manages to touch the world beyond".
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The nurse explains about the "recovery" phenomenon:
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And here she explains about it compared to "Grey's Anatomy":
The look of death
"I'm not talking about a situation where their eyes are open, because people's eyes are open when they die," Julie explains in the video, "it's when a person is still lucid enough and they just stare at a corner or a certain part of the room. Sometimes they smile when they do that. Sometimes They're talking to someone while they're doing it, and they just don't move their gaze."
The "death stare" is a phenomenon that Julie claims is completely normal and as a nurse she never tried to look away from the patient if he was feeling comfortable and happy.
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The nurse is exposed to a miracle in her work:
Although these phenomena can be defined as hallucinations, many agree that they were exposed to them when visiting relatives who were at the end of their lives.
One wrote: "About a week before my sweet mother passed away, she said 'Look at all these angels. Aren't they beautiful?'. It was a moment that I was made forever."
Another added: "My mother got there. She said she was opening the door to heaven when we asked her what she was doing."
Jolie's explanation of what to expect when a person is dying brought a lot of comfort to those who are afraid of death: "I was terrified of death and your explanation helps me accept it," one wrote and another added: "Death doesn't scare me anymore. Thank you."
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