Palliative care nurses see us in our final hours — these are the life lessons they've learnt

Palliative care nurses see us in our final hours — these are the life lessons they've learnt 
ABC News; by Iskhandar Razak; 6/29/24 
Anne Myers was once confused and shaken by death. After more than a decade as a nurse, including in hospital ICUs, her mother died. "I'd seen a lot of deaths in my nursing life, but it was the closest human to me that had died," she said. "It kind of sent me down a 'oh my god, I don't know what's happening to me', this grief I'm experiencing." Soon afterwards, she became a palliative care nurse. "I ended up just going down the path of 'what is death, what is death and dying all about?'" she recalled. More than 15 years later, here's what she and other palliative care nurses have discovered on how to die well and live well.

• Dead people visit you before you die--and if that happens, go with it ...
• At the end, some patients hold on until they're ready ...
• Beautiful things happen--but people don't change ...
• Live your life now ...