The 5 L's

I'm definitely surrounded my death, and I feel almost blessed by this. For a young person and to have lost so many people I have given my heart too feels almost surreal. How can I explain how it feels when you're holding someones hand who is transitioning from life into death? When they call out for their mothers and can see them in front of them when I can't see anything? Do I believe it, or are they hallucinating from the pain? So I comfort them, say it's ok to move on, when I come back again they are gone. I won't ever see them in their human form ever again.

This use to disturb me because I care for these people like they are my friends. It doesn't matter if they are old or young or sick or demented, they are my friends, they've impacted my life, they care for me as I care and love for them. A close work friend instilled me with a bit of insight that has made me feel better about losing people I care for. She told me that when they move on they become angels that look over us in the same way we looked after them. Those who have left us behind have left me many blessings, and I will never ever forget them.

Studying the End of Life is very uplifting, and it teaches us the way to work through loss is the 5 L's:
Love
Live
Laugh
Learn
Listen.

Death can enrich our lives, and in a strange way being beside someone during their transition period has made me not scared of death at all, how can you be? We have so much inside us not to live on and teach every one we've left behind.