A palliative care nurse reveals a movement people often make when they are near death
Psychologically, raising one’s arms could be an unconscious gesture of liberation . As if the person, in an impulse of acceptance, were surrendering to that passage, without fear.
For loved ones, this moment often becomes a relief:
That gesture reassured me. I felt that they were waiting for him, that he was leaving in peace.
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