MIRROR
A doctor has told of patients’ fear before they are about to die, as well as signs there could be an afterlife.
Dr Sarah Wells has been working for 20 years as a palliative care doctor and takes pride in looking after patients’ bodies even after they have passed. She admits that people are scared of the unknown; especially those who have witnessed others’ painful last moments.
She now is head of a team of 10 doctors at Marie Curie Hospice in Solihull, that look after up to 20 patients at a time who have terminal conditions – such as heart disease, dementia or motor neurone disease – and have just weeks to live.
She said that she has cared for about 2,000 terminally ill patients in total, and states that while many are elderly there is also a “disproportionately” large number of younger people.
A sign she’s noticed that people are coming to the end is when they start talking about seeing lost relatives. And while not religious, she said that the experiences have given her a strengthened belief in an afterlife, she wrote in the Telegraph
