My father had a heart attack and very sadly died in a shop. The police and ambulance attended. As family, we were moved away into the shop store room and this is where we were told he had died. The police and ambulance staff basically left us to it. And then they took his body off to do a post mortum, gave us a leaflet about what to do when someone dies and told us to go home.
I have found myself very jealous of the care people have in hospitals and hospices with bereavement services and care. I feel like there should have been better care and help for us instead of just “he’s died, now go home”, but I don’t know what really. I just wanted someone to come in and sit with us, make sure we were ok and tell us what to do- it was a huge shock. And maybe some kind of follow up visit. I don’t know who would be responsible for doing this though. I guess that’s why no one did. It just felt so wrong to be abandoned and left to it.
I think I just wanted some kind of health visitor for bereavement.
Has anyone else suffered a sudden non-violent death? Did anything different happened for you or is this the norm? Any idea how I could change things to make it easier for others?