This VR Simulation Helps Healthcare Workers See How Death Looks Like
The end-of-life VR simulation is meant to educate staff and students at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine.
Virtual reality seems to break all the shackles of the real world by enabling people to traverse the areas that were thought to be unexplorable before. Virtual reality is simply expanding the field of human experience by adding an extra dimension to the happenings of the world.
As gruesome the topic may seem, a lot of the human population are eager to know about the experience of death. Till today, there seemed no way to answer clearly about what happens when the soul leaves the body.
But according to a recent finding by Embodied Labs, they claim to provide the experience of how it feels to die through the aid of Virtual Reality. Their fresh virtual reality simulation is currently used by the hospice workers of Gosnell Memorial Hospice House located in Scarborough, Maine. This new invention is also a needful experience for the university students studying medical sciences.
According to the CEO Daryl Cady of the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, it was an amazing experience. He added that he was quite dubious in the start but the event was very different and emotional.
The VR simulation by Embodied Labs lasts for about thirty minutes and showcases Clay, a cancer victim. The observer first experiences Clay fighting to communicate with his family members, then suffers a drop and that leads him in the emergency room where he eventually transitions into the care of hospice home. The death experience showcases how the skin of Clay turns into a different color and his senses lose to receive any sensation.
A Hospice nurse quoted that the dimming of his eyesight as he nears the end was a bit surreal.
According to a medical student at UNE, Victoria Nguyen just observing the family members is really emotional. She now wants to explore old age with gerontology and wants to work in the area of hospice care. She also added that dying is inevitable but making the end easier is what is going to help the victim.
CEO of the Hospice house claimed that this new VR simulation is surely going to help the hospice workers empathize with the sufferers and also give emotional support to the family. He added that it’s always difficult to converse about the ending and this simulation is an excellent chance to learn about it.
