Dealing with the dead. Part 1.

I have seen dead people before. I’m from that layer of working class that keeps dead relatives in the front room overnight before a funeral.

 This post is the first of two and you might want to read them in succession. Both of Part 1 and Part 2 talk about death and dying and touch on my experiences of both. Please engage in self-care as you read these articles.

October 1973

‘Nurse Walters, will you help me lay out Frances, please?’

I am on my first ward placement — general surgery.  …