When Did You First Come to Terms With Your Own Death?

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When Did You First Come to Terms With Your Own Death?

I think this is an important part of becoming a doctor.

How did it make you feel at first, how do you live your life differently now?

Was it a specific event that triggered it?

For me, when I quit pro soccer I was in a very contemplative state\depressed and thought about it a lot. Then my first week volunteering in the ER I asked the doctors if I could watch them in the trauma room while they performed CPR ect. on a cardiac arrest patient. He died and I helped bring his body down to the morgue (first time I touched a dead body).

I could go on for pages about how that new outlook changed me but what did it for you?
 
muffeoniv said:
When Did You First Come to Terms With Your Own Death?

I think this is an important part of becoming a doctor.

How did it make you feel at first, how do you live your life differently now?

Was it a specific event that triggered it?

For me, when I quit pro soccer I was in a very contemplative state\depressed and thought about it a lot. Then my first week volunteering in the ER I asked the doctors if I could watch them in the trauma room while they performed CPR ect. on a cardiac arrest patient. He died and I helped bring his body down to the morgue (first time I touched a dead body).

I could go on for pages about how that new outlook changed me but what did it for you?
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Your phrasing is poor, because only some people, such as those who are terminally ill, have the chance truly come to terms with death. You may have contemplated death or suicide or your own mortality, but you have not come to terms with your own death.
 
jm192 said:
When I realized it was the only way to escape the countless muffeoniv threads!
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There are some things money can buy....for others, death may be the only answer. (J/K)
 
DaisyBuchanan said:
I'm just in shock that muff started another thread after declaring that he was quitting SDN.
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Seriously.... Apparently his right hand didn't know what his left was doing...wait, nevermind, I don't think I'd WANT to know what his left was doing! :scared::scared::scared:
 
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This is a really stupid thread. At some point in your medical training you will be exposed to death and learn that it happens to everyone. You will learn how to deal with death and how to help patient families deal with death but you never really have to come to terms with your "own death" in order to become a good physician. Most of the people on this site are young, healthy adults. They don't need to come to terms with their death for several decades :smack:.
 
Okay, this hating on the OP is really starting to reach bandwagon level. OP, I would recommend that you post most of these threads in the social forums of SDN rather than the pre-allo. You'll get a lot less flack and a lot more legitimate answers.

Having had a number of near-death experiences (drowning x2, hit by car, huge car accident, etc), I was confronted with my own mortality relatively early on.
 
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mmmcdowe said:
Okay, this hating on the OP is really starting to reach bandwagon level. OP, I would recommend that you post most of these threads in the social forums of SDN rather than the pre-allo. You'll get a lot less flack and a lot more legitimate answers.

Having had a number of near-death experiences (drowning x2, hit by bar, huge car accident, etc), I was confronted with my own morality relatively early on.
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I was confronted with my own morality when I was trying to decide whether to make fun of someone trying to be helpful for misspelling mortality.
 
Rocher said:
Young, healthy adults die every single day.
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yes, but if you are young and truly healthy, the only ways to die are accidents, homicide, etc. And I think the vast majority of people who die in such ways didn't really have a chance to "come to terms" with death.

muff, I can't tell if you're actually serious (you mentioning quitting pro soccer makes me raise an eyebrow), but I think you have raised an interesting question, though I agree with other posters that the way you've phrased it is misleading. For me, "coming to terms" with death indicates you are somewhat aware of the time frame or cause of your impending death, and you have accepted it.

if you mean acknowledging one's mortality however, I think a lot more people have had experiences with that. For me, it came with some of my clinical experiences, and hearing of patients I had spoken to recently passing away (I worked in oncology, and often encountered terminal patients). I have been very fortunate not to have anyone very close to me pass away, but the death of fellow students has also made me very aware of my own morality.
 
I vote that we just use muffeoniv's threads to dump random funny pictures. I'll gladly start:

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