“Your line of work? Really?”
February 14, 2020
While watching an American sitcom, during this week leading up to Valentine’s Day, I was intrigued by an exchange between a dying patient and his attending nurse. The conversation went like this:
Patient: I’m scared
Nurse: Of course you are scared. You are beginning a journey into the unknown. But at the end of it you will find peace.
Patient: In heaven?
Nurse: Well, that depends on your line of work.
Supervising nurse overhearing the conversation:…