Nurse breaks protocol to grant elderly man his dying wish on hospital roof
Danish hospital has shared a photo of a man receiving his dying wish: watching the sunset enjoying a glass of wine and a cigarette.
Carsten Flemming Hansen was too sick to undergo the surgery on his stomach and was going to die of internal bleeding.

Mr Hansen had been hospitalised at Aarhus University Hospital with a spur on the artery and his nurse Rikke Kvist told him he was going to die.

He informed Ms Kvist of his final wish and she was more than willing to grant it
"That was when I remembered that we are on the same floor that has access to a balcony," she told Avisen.dk.

With the help of Mr Hansen's family he was taken out to the balcony to enjoy the sunset on Tuesday evening before he died on Friday.

"It was a very cozy and relaxed atmosphere," the nurse said.

"Of course they were relatives also affected by the fact that he was going to die, and they were sad.

"But it was cozy and there was humour."

aw sad.

It's a good story and one of those rare ones.

Normally the staff are so busy and over-stressed as Our politician's are running the hospitals like factories.


Alcohol is a completely normal thing on Danish hospital's and you will often see one of the nurses with a bottle of bacardi, Even the surgeon won't operate without at least 3 shot's of whiskey and often end's up in a brawl with one of the patient's relatives.In the hospital stores cigarettes are selling so well that they had to make a special arrangement with the Danish tobacco company Prince and certain Polish cigarette smugglers just too keep up with demand.

Danish hospital's = Happy hour, Every hour

Seriously?

No Nicorj just joking . Lawsuit , lost job and even worse jailtime to those discovered . The nurse Tasman is writing about took a big risk . We have had several cases of Black Widows on hospital and nursing homes . Without Doctors approval the nurse in this story risked being fired and even getting jailtime .

That's kind of funny, Nikorj.

I'm old enough to remember cigarette machines in hospitals and the selling of cigarettes in
the hospital gift shop.

Also, I can remember sitting at the nurses station smoking a cigarette. Visitors, patients, etc
would come up to the nurses station and we'd be smoking. Doctors, nurses, everyone smoked
right at the nurses station.

I am trying really hard to remember patients smoking in their rooms and I don't think they could
ever do that.

It was about 1990, I would say, when America really began cracking down on eliminating smoking
from inside businesses. The hospital I worked at, stopped allowing smoking inside....about.....I
think 1993. It was kind of funny because what they did was place a huge tent up on the large patio.
The patio had multiple sitting and often hospital employees would take their food out there to eat, etc.
So then at some point, the hospital put up the big tent and said you can only smoke inside the tent.
You didn't need a cigarette if you went in the tent because it was like walking into a fog....just inhale.

valerie wrote: That's kind of funny, Nikorj.

I'm old enough to remember cigarette machines in hospitals and the selling of cigarettes in
the hospital gift shop.

Also, I can remember sitting at the nurses station smoking a cigarette. Visitors, patients, etc
would come up to the nurses station and we'd be smoking. Doctors, nurses, everyone smoked
right at the nurses station.

I am trying really hard to remember patients smoking in their rooms and I don't think they could
ever do that.

It was about 1990, I would say, when America really began cracking down on eliminating smoking
from inside businesses. The hospital I worked at, stopped allowing smoking inside....about.....I
think 1993. It was kind of funny because what they did was place a huge tent up on the large patio.
The patio had multiple sitting and often hospital employees would take their food out there to eat, etc.
So then at some point, the hospital put up the big tent and said you can only smoke inside the tent.
You didn't need a cigarette if you went in the tent because it was like walking into a fog....just inhale.

Yeah true

Seen some old tv clips from back in the 70's and 80's where everyone smoked as it was just as normal as drinking tap water.

And some of those old american cigarette commercial's are also fun to watch, I'f you didn't smoke you wer'e almost a complete douchebag, everyone smoked happily without concern

It was allowed to smok all over the hospitals and inside stores etc pre 1990 in Denmark . Today smokers have ended up almost being treated like criminals . But yes the smoking not allowed restrictions were and still are needed . I do smoke myself and way to much by the way , but I still don`t mind not being alllowed to smoke various places . Drunk Doctors or Nurses or Doctors and Nurses stoned on medication once was a much bigger problem than it is today . Thank the new harder laws for that .