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I volunteer at the hospital; I am an aspiring doctor. Last night I felt a man's pulse and vital signs fade away as he died. Is it normal that I found the situation so intriguing I actually became excited about witnessing death as a firsthand experience?
It is a unique and rare experience for most people ...so in that sense it is intriquing...however MOST people actuallly die of SOMETHING and that someting is very painful or at least debilitating and they leave behind people that cared about them ...so those things make death a sad event
This is only normal for a licenced doctor (one who fixes patients properly), but not for the rest of the community, so many of whom suffer and are still alive in their sickbeds.
Is it normal? Allow me to restate, in a different vernacular:
I put my fingers to his neck to find his pulse. It was there, if fading. The certain knowledge that this person was expiring right in front of me washed over my senses, hightened reality. I was dying myself, experiencing through this man endless possibilities, not only after death, but in life. What did he experience, what wealth of knowledge did he impart to family, friends?
His heart, now fading to nothing, was beating it's last. Soon to be nothing but flesh, I stood and watched as death walked him into whatever realm awaits all men, if any. At that moment, that split-second when he finally breathed his last, when his heart stopped beating against my very fingers, I rejoiced. Myown heart answered his with a monstrous beating, excelerating to the point of bursting. He had died, but I was alive. More alive than ID ever been. This man, who I knew nothing about, a life lived apart from my own, communicated to me in his last breath how fleeting life is. How important that living can and should be. I was awakened from my slumber, introduced to the reality or mortality, the prospect that one day, I might be like him, and give a final gift to another. The gift of life, given only once.
It is intriguing but only if you have no link to the person and their family
i think it is normal, if it is just excitement at the importance of the moment. If on the other hand you are continually excited,i agree with the above posts
no this is not normal, its an early sign of a serial killer actually. i know doctors numb themselves to not feel sorrow when a patient dies but to feel excited is not normal. if that was the first time u witnessed a patient's death than the excitement may just be because u finally experienced what goes on when being a doctor. but if u keep feeling this as time goes on seek physiatry
Be careful, this is how people like Harold Shipman and Donald Harvey (famous serial killer doctors) start out.