How Buddhism Helps Supporting Us In Living, And In #EndofLife Caring Throughout the Fatal #pandemic Period

How Buddhism Helps Supporting Us In Living, And In #EndofLife Caring Throughout the Fatal #pandemic Period

Author: Nano-organic Elixir

Date: 15th July 2021

Keywords: #hospice, #healthcare, #virtual, #facetime, #history, #timeline, #caregiver, #dying, #funeral

Length: 946 words

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          We all have been witnessing something so unusual, something that would become #history: a #pandemic.  It is the situation which is too unpleasant to remember, yet too hard to forget.  It is surreal that we have lived world #history that we can tell our children and grandchildren about.

           Since the global outbreak of the #pandemic in late 2019, it was as if we had entered a parallel #timeline.  Our physical world became smaller but our #virtual world began expanding.  Everything around us has gone #virtual since, for example, #virtual meetings, #virtual classrooms, #virtual dates, #virtual birthday parties, and even #virtual #funeral!

           No vacation trips.  No physically socializing with friends, at all.  Just faces on handphone screen.  We #facetimed a lot, but it was not the same.  No amount of screen time could make up for in-person interactions with friends.  However, the least, by this way although the real distance was very far, we got much closer #virtually.

          Many people had to say goodbye to their life as they knew it and hello to the infamous mandate quarantine.  Trying to see things in a different light, the #pandemic is an illustrative example of the 1930s Great Depression; it was a highly disruptive, widespread, and long-lasting event that fundamentally changed the way people lived.

          The good thing was the 1930s Great Depression maintained some values like frugality, possibly, the #pandemic may leave behind its own fingerprints like germ phobia, wariness of proximity to strangers or increased comfort with solitude.  Solitude, in these times, means safe; crowds and social interaction mean risky.

          Records had shown that people who had gone through adversity, develop wisdom, ability to regulate their emotions, and resilience.  Hopefully, the #pandemic may instill these kinds of strength into us.

          Meanwhile young people show that they grow and learn, and gain maturity.  The crisis has matured them by a few years because they have to deal with difficult situation.  They adapt and become stronger even under uncertainty.

          Moreover, the #pandemic taught them the virtues of compassion, patience, hard work, selflessness, dedication, gratefulness and passion towards their profession and family from their parents and people around them.

          

          The sad thing among all was that many of them had family members caught by #COVID-19 and they could not visit their loved one in person for fear of being infected; even though it was the time when people needed their family most but they could not be together.  Added by an acute shortage of doctors and nurses, they had to wait and watch their loved ones’ health declining without proper timely medication.  It was horrible.  The families were heartbreaking, the patients with the lack of family members staying close to provide the #end-of-life care were lonely.

          At the final moment in life, the #end-of-life care is crucially important because the ideas and emotions the #dying carry with them through life often determine the quality of their death.  The #end-of-life care allows family members to create a field of lovingkindness to support the #dying.

          So, while doing the end-of-life care, the family members are not there merely to provide assistance; they are there to lend the sick person the concentration of minds, the fearlessness of hearts, a reminder of goodness and values accumulated through the #dying’s life time in order to accompany them through their journey.

          The environment in which a person is #dying, by this it means who is present, and how they are present, has a big impact on how a person dies.  One calm person in the room can make all the difference.

          Therefore, if the family has a spiritual practice, in those moments, the shared embrace of meditation between the family #end-of-life #caregivers and the #dying can be held in an intimate meditative silence beyond consolation or assistance, no cheering up falsely with empty hope needed.  By this way, they could bring in calm stability, emotional availability, mindfulness, and fearlessness to the #dying.  And this makes the family #end-of-life #caregivers be a true compassionate refuge.

          A mutually beneficial relationship between the #end-of-life #caregivers and a person who is #dying is that both parties learn together through practicing meditation in action and exploring the nature of death with an open and lovingkindness mind.

          Meditation practice is particularly beneficial because healthcare and #end-of-life care are embracing the fundamental principles of mindfulness.  The #end-of-life care seems to have been enormously influential, in terms of bringing #Buddhist wisdom, and various contemplative technologies to the #end-of-life caring duty, in the way that provide a fusion of medically-driven model and spiritual insight, that are profoundly helpful in supporting people in #dying.

          Moreover, participating in #end-of-life care activity can lead to a profound awareness of our own death and the fundamental truth that everything comes and goes.  Gaining this kind of unique and helpful perspective on impermanence, and suffering can be of enormous support in the time of our own #dying.  Ultimately the #end-of-life care definitely matters.  It creates a better way to face death and to die.

          To encapsulate the on-current situation, the entire experience of the #pandemic has made all of us realize that we humans are capable of overcoming any adversities as we all strive to get over this catastrophe.  We had learned something about ourselves during the #pandemic.  In many cases, we even grow from it.  The #pandemic is not the only battle we are fighting.  Once the immediate crisis subsides, it is time to get real and stand up for our future.

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