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In all my time on earth I was very thankful to my friends and family. I have valued all my friends throughout the years. School has changed me, and made me realize that you don’t need many friends as long as they are good ones. We had a lot of good times and I will miss them dearly. To my family, I love you all. You guys always looked out for me and helped me during hard times while I was growing up. Thank you.
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Completing this end of life project has greatly helped me prepare for inevitable; death. It helped me figure out the costs for a burial and cremation. It also helped me understand what a eulogy and obituary are. Planning your own funeral helps you be an empathetic, compassionate, person in the medical field because it helps me better understand what happens after you die and it also help make death seem very real. Death can happen at any time and I need to be prepared. If you are working in the medical field with a dying patient, you need to put yourself in their shoes to fully understand their situation and how to better help them prepare for death. If you do not do this you will not be good medical field

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