美国国家公共电台 NPR They Comfort Strangers, So No One Dies Alone
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2017年NPR美国国家公共电台11月
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
It's Friday, which means 1 we hear from StoryCorps. Many of us spent Thanksgiving with family and friends. And today, we have a story about those who are alone. David Wynn and Carolyn Lyon volunteer at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. And when patients who are near death do not have loved ones to be with them, David and Carolyn step in.
CAROLYN LYON: They have no one for various reasons. You know, they've outlived family. They've never married.
DAVID WYNN: For some reason, I always wonder about the person's mother. She saw him first, and I saw him last. It was her and me that are the bookends of this person's life. So each time that I leave a patient who has died, there is this element 2 of sadness. But I remember this one gentleman that I was with. The nurses said that he was estranged 3 from his family. And I was sitting there with him. And I heard somebody at the door. Turns out it's his son. And he, I guess, felt a little bit uncomfortable, and so he asked me to stay. And then his sister came in. And these are people who hadn't seen each other in maybe 10 or 20 years. They were apologizing to each other.
I remember the daughter saying, you know, I don't even know why I was angry at you. I don't even remember. And they made this reconciliation 4 at the very end of his life like that. And they said, we're going to try to be a family again. You know, we talk about the last senses to go would be the sense of touch and hearing. And I hope that there was enough left of the dad that he had some sense that this bad situation had been healed 5 through his death. And I felt like, you know, just this feeling of honor 6 that I was part of this.
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INSKEEP: David Wynn and Carolyn Lyon for StoryCorps in Santa Ana, Calif. Their story will be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress 7. Remember, StoryCorps' Great Thanksgiving Listen is this week. If you would like to record with your loved ones, you can find out how by going to thegreatlisten.org.
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