KHARON

Thanatology Review

Electronic Journal

Content

Volume 10

Number 1-2 · 2006

Confessions


 ALEXANDRA KUGLER
ALEXANDRA KUGLER

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szandi.dula@freemail.hu

A bifurcating road – birth and death – why I became a helper?

Abstract · The author who is helping in hospice care and at deliveries self-confesses on processes and experiences that made her take part in the work of those serving at the beginning and end of life and she considers this as a calling. As almost a child she herself experienced what it is like to get close to death by means of an illness, to live through a near-death experience and has to struggle in helpless despair due to the covert communication of doctors. This milestone that meant meeting with feeling of passing in her life led her to serve as a helper in hospice care even today. Another experience, the beautiful feeling of assisting at a delivery made her recognize the similarities between the two most important events of life and prompted her to take a helper role at deliveries as well.