Hey everyone, it's Anna.

We recently got an email from a listener named Lindsay.

She's a nurse practitioner who lives in Philadelphia and she's currently working in an ICU in New

Jersey about an hour and a half away from home.

She normally works in pediatric oncology, but because her husband has already had the coronavirus,

she volunteered to work with adult COVID patients for the time being.

Lindsay is 28 and she's been working as a nurse since she was in her early 20s.

And we here on the team thought her email about her job right now and struggling with what

a good death means today was really important and beautiful.

So we asked her to record her thoughts.

Here's Lindsay.

I've been surrounded by death in my job.

I mean, as an oncology nurse, I've washed children before taking them to the morgue.

I've comforted families as they leave the hospital without a child and mourned and grieved

with my coworkers for a life cut so short.

In end of life care and oncology, we focus a lot on what constitutes a good death for a patient

and their family.

Obviously, there are some unexpected deaths that are devastating, but the oncology community

is a small one.

We really try to grieve together as a family against the insidious enemy that is cancer.

But COVID is really changing the way I'm seeing death.

I knew patients were sick and I knew healthcare workers were struggling, but what I didn't

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