Working in Intensive Care Units (many different types, many people dying) I came to realize, that Nurses had an opportunity to play a unique and special role, as advocates and agents to the living, who would soon be dying. It was not our choice, what their final destination would be.

Agents of the Afterlife

It’s a savage beast of an undertow
That steals away the breath,
In these evil lands a shadow stands
To escort the mystery death,
As agents of the afterlife
We have a bill to sell,
To guide those worn and weary souls
To heaven or to hell.

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