My mother sometimes talks with invisible
people. In most cases the people are my grandmother or my great-aunt. These
people have already died.
According to the textbooks about nursing
Alzheimer’s disease, in these cases, we should not say:
“There is nobody
there!”
Nor should we say:
“That person has
already died!”
We should divert
the patient’s attention from the person. Or we should let the patient talk for
a while and then say:
“The person has
gone, right?”
However, in my case, I always listen seriously
to my mother talking, because my mother could already be a semi-resident of the
next world. It is possible to imagine she is actually talking to dead people.
It could be a good opportunity to get
information about the next world. I always ask her various questions about her
invisible guests to get some crucial information, but she always answers
evasively. I haven’t obtained any concrete evidence that there is a next world
or not.
Furthermore, sometimes my mother talks with a
person who is still alive but not here. That gets me down.
“Mum! Be careful!
That person is still alive!”
Picture by Izumi Kobayashi
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