Hard Time for The Next of Kin
There is a time in a patient's life when the pain
ceases to be, when the mind slips off into a dreamless state, when the need for
food becomes minimal and the awareness of the environment all but disappears
into darkness. This is the time when the relatives walk up and down the
hospital hallways, tormented by the waiting, not knowing if they should leave
to attend the living or stay to be around for the moment of death. This is the
time when it is too late for words, and yet the time when the relatives cry the
loudest for help – without words … It is the hardest time for the next of kin
as he either wishes to take off, to get it over with; or he desperately clings
to something that he is in the process of losing forever. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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