{"id":4736,"date":"2022-06-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2023-05-25T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T02:26:58","slug":"preparing-a-final-farewell-isnt-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiao-en.com\/preparing-a-final-farewell-isnt-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing A Final Farewell Isn\u2019t Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Do you still remember the last appearance of a departed relative at their funerals? Most people do. No matter how much time had passed, the last appearance of the departed is deeply imprinted in the hearts of the family members. Their final \"appearance\" is due to the work of a clinical care professional. Whether its cleaning, dressing, and applying makeup, if it\u2019s related to making the departed presentable, this is where Ebby Chong steps in it. While she has prepared many departed for their final journey, she still gets emotional when she must prepare a newly departed. On one occasion, she even cried because of the tragic death of the departed, despite knowing that not everyone gets a pleasant death.<\/pre>\n\n\n\nReaders who pay attention to media reports may be familiar with Ebby Chong, a clinical care professional at Xiao En Group. Due to her professional experience at young age, she has often appeared under the media spotlight to share her journey. You might think having been in the industry for many years, Ebby would have been desensitised to her career and able face matters of “death” calmly, but that is far from true. Till this day, she still feels empathy for the death of someone who is not her relative. As a human being, she will also get emotionally at times sue to her work.
“Once, we (Xiao En) received a call that an elderly man who lived alone was found dead at home for several days, and my colleagues and I went to the scene to pick up the body. On the way to the place, I said to my colleagues that I don’t know what would happen at the scene, because generally, remains that are discovered after a few days would have begun to turn black and have an odour.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n