Le_Canard said:

No tips, but I just wanted to say how commendable that is, trying to bring a ray of sunshine into an otherwise gloomy situation. Good luck in that.

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Chakra Shock said:

I have no more experience than you do, probably less, but imagining myself in your shoes, I would want to clear my mind as well as I could and focus on emanating spiritual vibrations and listening.

Best of luck, you're a true trooper.

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Bodhi of Ankou said:

From everything I've gathered about your from your posts you seem like a sensitive person mentally. I don't know if you'll be able to handle it, death isn't pretty and being around it often leaves most people jaded in some way or another. That being said what you're doing is really admirable, noble even but try not to take everything that goes on in there with you when you go home at night. That's some seriously heavy shit.

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I've been around death before. Seen random people die, violently, as a bystander(Thanks west philly!), strangers, a friend in a horseback riding accident, and lost others - though my life has been very easy, my family is very non-dysfunctional and mostly alive, and because most of the people I know have had so much more fucked up shit happen, I feel like any depression I feel is melodramatic, in comparison.

But you're right I am very sensitive, I cried tonight when I saw about news in Paris, actually, which probably makes me a huge pansy, but I think I manage to keep it under wraps or at least out of sight from others. That's the only reason I even begin to think I could do this..because it would be terrible to be in a hospice and have your volunteer who's supposed to be your buddy and who's supposed to chill and do fun stuff with you crying all the time - but you're right, I do worry I'll internalize it all and get all depressed.

I guess we'll find out? I'll try really hard not too. I try hard to be as logical as possible, but it doesn't always work.

pirate-blues said:

This is gold, thankyou.

I'm terrible at chess, but I do have a set.

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Prisoner#1 said:

pirate-blues said:

This is gold, thankyou.

I'm terrible at chess, but I do have a set.

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more often than not they just want someone to be a friend, someone to listen to
them, some will be completely out of it but others will be lucid and talkative,
they want to share life with someone

you mentioned your grandmother and she could be reliving her days in highschool,
encourage it, ask her who that boy she liked so much is, ask her questions and let
her relive those moments with you. in her more lucid times ask many of the same
questions and carry this on to your volunteer work. I know a lot about my family
because I listened to my mom, my grandparents and even my great grandparents.
these are little glimpses of real history, daily life and a knowledge for some
that they arent going to be forgotten

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