hospice care some things to expect

[I am a giraffe]

I have so much in common with the god Thanos, and I felt his presence long before I ever came back to Father Zeus, shaped by my years as a hospice nurse assistant, where I provided comfort and support to patients and their families.

For those on hospice or with loved ones in hospice, a nurse assistant is there to provide gentle personal care, help with movement and comfort, offer emotional support, assist with small household tasks, and stay by the patient’s side, ensuring dignity, peace, and compassion during life’s final days.

In hospice, people often report seeing children, pets, family members, or even childhood homes—visions that seem to come from another realm, offering comfort, closure, or a gentle connection to the life they’ve lived.

This is something the school you trained at won’t tell you: in hospice, you become a spiritual bridge, guiding and comforting souls until Thanos comes to take them.

This is what some people see

1. Children

2. Pets (past or present)


3. Family members (alive or passed)


4. Childhood homes or familiar places


5. Friends or loved ones who have passed


6. spiritual beings


7. Deceased partners or spouses


8. gods


When someone dies this is what you may feel and I felt it as well

1. Straightforward

“When someone passes, the whole room changes — the feeling shifts like a sudden fallout.”

2. More emotional

When a person takes their last breath, the room feels different instantly, almost like a quiet fallout settling over everything.

3. More descriptive

When someone dies, the air in the room drops into a strange stillness, a kind of emotional fallout you can feel more than you can explain.

4. Short and powerful

When someone passes, the room feels like a fallout.




Some of you might smell

1. Sweet scents – cotton candy, sugar, vanilla, caramel.


2. Floral scents – roses, lilacs, jasmine.


3. Earthy or natural scents – soil, grass, wood, herbs like lavender.


I hope this helps

 

[Epiphany]

Thank you for sharing your experience. I think that society has a very negative, unconstructive and unhealthy view of death, we must find a way to make it constructive and life affirming. Death can be a time of grief, yes, for those lost, but also of gratitude, rememberance and love and respect. The transition period is about helping people find peace, comfort and closure in preparation for their transition to the next life, and to keep their dignity.

It can be painful, but it can also become a beautiful and loving memory.