I ran across Hospice Nurse Julie’s Youtube channel and think it’s got amazing information about the very difficult final processes of dying and hospice.

If you’ve never worked in a hospital or attended the death of someone, most people do not know what final stages of death are like. Even she didn’t see most of these stages when working in an ICU. It wasn’t until she became a hospice nurse that she learned about them. Now she shares these very real and extremely informative videos. The comments are full of nurses saying this is exactly what they experience too.

Some of the videos are informative, others can be very difficult to watch with (by permission) video of people actively dying. We all have a scheduled day – we all will go through something like this. I believe it’s very important to hear and see the things that we should expect from ourselves and our loved ones when we reach the end. The more we know the less we fear.

Besides the videos, she also has a book that covers these topics if you’d rather read and not see: Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully.

Some of the good ones to start with:

• What it’s like dying from cancer in hospice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6Tvw-pGQE&t
• What I would do if I had a cancer diagnosis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq6DqG02Rok
• What the stages of active dying looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLVFhhEy3rc
• Common death bed phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PynnN-kQMAI
• Metastatic colon cancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQY8-AXT_i4