My job is one that is very demanding and draining. I am a hospice nurse. My sole focus is to ease the transition from life to death, without pain. Once the patient has taken their last breath, I prepare the body to leave the home and comfort the family. I care for my patients and become very attached. I provide the best care, regardless of how I may feel or what may be going on for me. I spend my time with my patients doting on them, showing them love and comforting them in every way possible.
I can't say I have ever felt anything 'linger' following a death. I have heard the dead in 'distant conversations' after dying (with body still present in home). I have never felt a patient 'drain' me so to speak. I have felt a draining of sorts, in that I know I am giving all of myself at that one moment to a person in need.
Is there anything I can do to rejuvenate? Should I be performing a cleansing after a death? Any suggestions at all would be so greatly appreciated. And...I know of sin eaters. Is there any other pagan belief, etc regarding those who aide the living in the final hour?
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reikihealer83
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Hi Carraigin,
First, I have to say it is never easy when you work around the reality of passing. Something you may to do after getting out of work is taking a cleansing bath and visualize the energy that might have come home with you going into the water and down the drain. Another option you may want to consider is going for a walk and releasing the energy for the earth. I hope this helps.
First, I have to say it is never easy when you work around the reality of passing. Something you may to do after getting out of work is taking a cleansing bath and visualize the energy that might have come home with you going into the water and down the drain. Another option you may want to consider is going for a walk and releasing the energy for the earth. I hope this helps.