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Assignment - Maintain and Manage Signs and Symptoms in A Dying Patient Discussion
Description - A letter to a Teacher in a course on Death and Dying:
October 16th, 1975
Dear Mr. Corr,
Want to thank you for your course on "Death and Dying." Not having been in your classroom, you might wonder what prompts me to write this letter.
My mother was one of the most dedicated Christians we in our lives have ever known.
She became very ill and it took 54 days, in and out of an Intensive Care Unit, for her to die. Doc and I spent as much time as humanly possible at her side. One day she looked at me with her beautiful soft brown eyes and said, "Why didn't anyone teach me how to die? We are taught at our mother's knee how to live but not how to die."
Hope your course will help people through this experience because we will all have a turn unless the Rapture comes first.
God bless you,
Dr. and Mrs. S. Koerner
The above letter was sent by a student of Mr. Corr who wrote a book about death and dying for students with two other colleagues. This letter appears in the edition of that book.
Questions -
Obviously much of this course covers palliative care nursing, the comfort care of persons by nurses. Is it possible that other topics about death and dying might be important if a nurse is to be able to take care of someone dying? Why?
Is personal enrichment in knowledge about death and dying an important aspect of the training and is it important even beyond the nursing aspects for you to learn about these aspects of living? Why?