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Why helping others die doesn't prepare you for your own death

I'm a hospice volunteer and I've been with dozens of people when they died but when my own time comes I'm terrified and I feel like a fraud for all the comfort I gave other people.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Witnessing death as a helper creates a different relationship to mortality than facing it as the dying person.

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