Who holds the hands? Who kisses cheeks and forehead? Who is speaking the last consoling words? Who closes the eyelids? In Corona-times, these questions are easy to answer. Many Dying have to go the last way alone. Without family and friends, without Affection and tenderness. You quit this life without saying goodbye.
The lonely Die is one of the consequences of the visit of ban in hospitals and care facilities, which was imposed in most of the Corona-epidemic-affected countries. It is hard to beat in a human hardness hardly. It’s sick, and, in particular, Death takes the last joy of life. The last will to live. The last longings.
once more, the daughter or the son? Once again the grandchild in the press? Once again, the Hand of the partner and hold his loving gaze feel? Once again the best friend in addition to knowledge? It is not what many patients all the pain and treatments have taken?
Painful feelings of guilt
Also for the relatives of the forbidden goodbye is a torture. You were not there when the beloved man is waiting for you. They could not show their feelings and Affection, for a life together, thank, neither for comfort nor receive. Painful feelings of guilt, the rest are many with life long.
as important As the prohibition from an epidemiological and public health perspective may be: the prohibition of crisis, which is not cope without humanity, a sign of inhumanity is in the middle of the Corona.
Isolation
stop The isolation of old and sick people must make in front of the death bed, stop. It’s about finding a compromise between two legitimate demands: protection against infection with the Coronavirus and protection against death in social Isolation.
After all: In Germany, many nursing care facilities and hospitals, with the exception of try and allow you to respond to regulations on this human distress, and Dying a farewell to their relatives. However, when implementation falls short in many places. And seriously ill Covid-19-patients are generally allowed to have no visitors.
Even if the Virus is hard to get under control: A decent farewell should also be in Corona times. Maybe tests for visitors are quickly in the future possible? Maybe there’s more protective clothing and masks, also for family members who want to say goodbye to your Loved ones?
I salute all Doctors, nurses and carers, pastors, Undertakers, and funeral speakers, and all the affected families endure each and every day, try to leave in the middle of the Corona-crisis humanity to prevail and for this unimaginable burden.
by the Via below Dolorosa, all the Christians out of fear of Contagion of this Easter stay away. They show that humanity is sometimes Prohibited. And life can again celebrate the resurrection.
author: Astrid Prange In FOCUS Online At FOCUS Online/Wochit In the
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