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Oh death where is thy sting?

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Thanks, Veral. That was very nice, and brought me back to the deathwatch that my sister and dad and I went through with my mom, who was dying of colon cancer at the age of 63.

Not long after that incident I became an EMT, and rode as a crew chief with my local ambulance service for 17 years. One pearl of knowledge I'd pass down to the new "kids" was to be very careful what they said in a home or in the back of the ambulance on the way to the hospital. It has been proven that hearing is the last of our senses to leave us. In my own experience I've had patients who were clinically "unresponsive" come back and repeat everything I'd said during my brief, but critical, time with them. Just because they are unable to speak, does not mean they cannot hear and understand.
 
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