Gretzky

How about at the hospital?! O; K' y1 O% x8 h" R0 g0 G8 A

( G0 E, F* C$ J) yI touch dead bodies all the time...cancer, surgerical, etc.
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0 ?6 m) D% l5 D: t$ `1/2 hr after dead, the body will lose the bounce and starting to feel like cold meat. It's kind of disgusting but after a while I am okay with it.
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0 C/ V" L* m5 ?When I touch the deceased, I kept telling myself this is not a person anymore, the person is gone and this (the body) is just the shell. If I know the patient well, I would even quietly say goodbye to him/her before the nurses come and pack him/her up.1 S' s; f) V1 s% O( h# |- a

1 c( k& h3 j( D' N& k, k, f) XThe ones with accidents in the ER are really bad, but we're too busy trying to save him/her to pause and think.