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Thank you Amanah for posting this.

The one thing I remember most in my years working in hospitals is what patients told me. It was important for them to discuss their feelings. Some have told me about their near death experiences. Others just talk to keep their minds on something other than their misery. I worked all over the hospital, but the cancer ward was where I was mainly assigned because nobody else wanted to work there. It's a sad place.

I'll never forget the elderly man who was languishing in his hospital bed on a ventilator for 18 months. He so wanted to die. He would get his hands loose from the restraints and pull off the ventilator hose that was connected to a tube in his throat called a tracheostomy tube. You can plainly see him mouth the words "Let me go, it's so beautiful over there".