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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By accepting the natural order of things and not thinking of death of elders as tragedy.

Children with cancer are a tragedy; people in midlife and beyond with cancer are the natural order of things. [/quote]

Either you are cold as ice or just have not lived through this yet.

Often these are vital people, hit out of the blue with terror and pain that you have to watch as they decline.

We are not talking about some folk song lyrics. [/quote]

I guess you can't read, as I have just posted about the many early deaths I have suffered among family and friends. And I have spent a decade of my life as a hospice caregiver so there isn't anything YOU can tell me about helping people cope with impending death at any age.[/quote]

Then maybe you should think about whether you're inured, and accept that to most other people it's a new and unwelcome feeling?
Perhaps you can bring yourself to understand that different people have various coping capacities, and that if you're a hospice worker, you might have much better coping skills than other people? Maybe it's a difference you were born with, that life circumstances and career choices made you cultivate further?

My husband worked as a emergency doctor for a while. He's on the autism spectrum, doesn't let feelings get in the way of life-saving actions, and was eminently suited to the role because he can stay cool under pressure. He is not like most people. Maybe YOU are not like most people.

Get it?

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