Death again. Sorry.

My cousin died today. I won't blather on about it because frankly I'm not in the frame of mind to do so right now. He was a teenager. He died tragically. I guess any child's death would be classed as tragic. But it was an accident. He was found by his mother, who wasn't able to revive him. I learnt of the news in the morning, then spent the rest of the day dodging the tv and online news reports. Given the amount of trauma I see in my line of work, I'd never really given much thought to news reporting of such things. Today, the inaccuracies and intrusiveness behind it really got to me. Public interest and all that, yeah I get it. But decorum didn't seem a priority. I know journalists are just doing their jobs. As are the police, ambos, doctors, nurses, etc who attend to such deaths. I've lost count of the number of families & deaths I've dealt with, of whatever cause, in hospital. My perspective has now changed. I can only hope this has made me a more compassionate nurse, however the short time longer I may be doing this job. RIP Liam.