Banshees - do they have a role in the NHS?

[Cartot]

Banshees haven’t had it good recently. I sense no-one takes them seriously any more, and they’re even reduced to cheesy cameos on “Celebrity Traitors”. However, that got me thinking - do these wailing harbingers of death have a role in saving lives?

If we had a warning system in place to know who was about to die, the medical services could be mobilised to save them in advance. They could even check into hospital in advance of the “inevitable” and be in the best place to avoid that outcome. The banshees could provide this early warning - see one in your back garden wailing, call 999 or head to A&E.

In return, the banshees would get back some self-respect and regain a role in society. Any fear of the banshees could be managed via a public information campaign.

AIBU?

What?

Good idea. Just don't pick up the comb!

YABU. Seeking life saving treatment due to the banshee's warning would mean that you are not about to die, so they then wouldn't appear, and wail, so then you wouldn't seek help. Basically you would enter anvrndless circular logical conundrum.

I may have overthought this. It's been a long day

What’s going on? 🤣

I think that post is the definition of unreasonable!

Besides which I work for the NHS and we have enough trouble keeping the vampires out of the blood bank without worrying about banshees, thank you very much!😂

Mmm I dont know, I think the grim reaper would be more recognisable and efficient maybe they could work together.

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So this is a daft Halloween thing. I think we need matrons - the overseer who know exactly what is happening across wards.

Very well reasoned argument in my opinion. The NHS could have wards set up specifically so medics don't have to be running down hospital corridors with equipment.

I was told today that I looked like the grim reaper. I was just wearing a very normal black dress.

Maybe I should volunteer my grim reaperesque services to the NHS on a trial basis.

I think they only hang out in Scotland though. Let’s trial it though. Perhaps if the banshees enjoy their new role within the nhs they might move to London where they get paid a bit more.

Good idea in theory but I used to work for the ambulance service and I know exactly what would happen - "I heard a wail in the garden, it was probably a seagull or next door's cat but can you come and check me over just in case?".

I think YABU because why would we want to intervene with the time of departure?
it could be handy for undertakers though, get a few things ready, put the kettle on…

perhaps a Bean-nighe would be more "comforting"?

I think they already work on Reception in a few places.

I thought they were just an Irish thing?

Also Banshees do not work that way.

I think Harpies could save the state a fortune in prison costs. They pursue murderers until the end of time, for free. Great deterrent, life really does mean life.

Unfortunately if your aunt is named Circe there is a loophole where you can spend time praying and sacrificing to the gods and get a reprieve, but overall it seems like a pretty good system 👍

I once read about a resident cat who lived in a nursing home, they noticed he had a habit of sitting outside someone's door, who usually passed shortly afterwards 😳 I've heard cats/dogs are more sensitive to certain scents possibly that some people have prior to dying. So instead of banshees can we have cats?

I was coming on to say this!!

I work in a very old hospital where a ghost called Archie haunts one of the wards. Apparently he visits those who are close to passing & they are dead within a day or so.

@Cartot I never thought of this

But in my most stressful job, I did say we needed to employ a banshee - a lot of us really needed to run around screaming but we just did not have the time to do it.

I think banshees only appear to certain families?
So we’d quite quickly end up with yet another two-tier system between the have-banshees and the have-no-banshees.