Staff going to patient funeral

[greenebee]

If a relative of yours died, and staff from the hospital where they were cared for attended the funeral, would you find it distressing? Or think it a comfort/nice thing to do?

The GP who repeatedly dismissed my cousins headaches as nothing to worry about/stress/depression for 2 years, turned up at his funeral.
He died of a brain tumour.
He was 28.
A family member asked her to leave and she made such a scene actually shouting "none of this is my fault you know" as she left.

A lot of the nurses and consultants came to my sisters funeral, she was in hospital for 5 months before she died and they all knew her as she was a student nurse.

It was nice of them to do so, I know they tried so hard, it was comforting.

I work in district nursing and quite often will attend a patients funeral especially if it was a patient we had been visiting for a long time. The last one I went to was patient who I had had on my caseload for many months during her end of life stage and we had been going into her for years previously, the family fed back to the surgery that they had found my presence there a comfort and really appreciated me taking the time to go.

Personally you want to know how I would feel.
I would be tearful and thankful and honoured you were there.
It would show me your patient isn’t just a patient that died and on to the next,but that you REALLY care.
If you want to make sure it is ok,just ask the relatives before.
I would be extremely touched and honoured by your presence.