Caring For The Carer

There is so much death around us, well high profile deaths. This brings me to wonder about the people who are requred to tended to dying souls till the curtains are drawn. I want to cry now, especially when I read about Hospice Nurses Help Terminally Ill Take Final Journey

"The terminally ill patient called in nurse Harlette de Leon with a simple last request: 'I'm going to die today. Can I hug you?'
Hug him she did - until he died upon her shoulder.
'I was crying,' recalled de Leon, a charge nurse at the Sherman Oaks Hospital Transitional Care Unit, which cares for dying patients. 'I put him back to bed. I put a blanket over him.
'I went into the bathroom and shed my tears.' "