An unnecessary death

Maybe this lady looked on nursing as a vocation for life, not just a job or career but something that gave her life meaning. Her family are, understandably, immensely proud of her and her verve for doing what she lived most. I don't think it's up to anyone else to criticise or question her choices. We'd all be a damned sight better off if more people had her ethics imo.

None of us is privilege to the decisions this lady and her family made. Maybe she had long ago decided that when her time came, she wanted to go while still ‘in the saddle’. Maybe she thought that when your number is up, it’s up, no matter what you do. I can’t criticise her for that.

Why should anyone else have the right to tell anyone how they should live their life? She was 84, not 4.

Her family are rightly very proud of her and recognise that she was doing what she wanted to do.

If it wasn't her working there it may have been some young mother or father who left young children behind.

When is it okay to die? She was doing a useful job and something she loved, in the end we all die and leave sad people behind.

By the way, is there such a thing as a "necessary death"?

Freedom to make choices, even risky ones, is one of the most precious things ever. Perhaps she felt life wasn't worth living under lockdown and she'd rather be helping others while she could. Good for her.

If it was her choice what right does anyone have to criticise her? Of course her family will be grieving, a lot of families are, but at some point they will recognise how brave and independent she was and how she lived her life as she wanted. NHS staff of all ages are dying should they all have stayed safe?

She obviously had a calling FlexibleFriend. Even though they'll miss her, I bet her family are proud; I know I would be.

She wasn't a recent returner, she never stopped. Her family said she was fully aware of the risks and carried on anyway, so yes it was her choice.

Perhaps she considered the risk worth taking?

People from many professions who are retired have been asked if they will go back to work during this crisis, and many have agreed to do so.

Margaret had free will, and she chose to help people. It's was her desition, and her family may have supported her.
I do not want to be judgemental, after all the politician's were asking retired people back to the NHS.

We rent they pulling doctors and nurses out of retirement anyway?

It isn't up to any of us to be judgemental. Nobody forced this woman to volunteer her service. She had given the rest of her life to nursing and why should she stop just because she was 84?

Maybe she discussed her decision with her family and they supported her in wanting to do what ever she could to help others.

I'm not saying she was right or wrong, it's not my place to say. What I will say is she appears to have died doing what she'd spent her working life doing and what she'd been trained for.

"She was a woman who chose of her own free will to ignore all the advice" exactly; her own free will.

It seems to me that somebody should have stopped her - whoever she was working (or volunteering) with should have sent her home!

Maybe because she wanted to be helpful instead of a burden. I am sure she was aware of the risk but decided to go ahead. If everyone took the attitude of keeping safe rather than keeping working, we would be in a total mess.

Apparently she was an ‘institution’. And nursing was her life and she couldn’t bear to stop.

She didn't choose to die.

Well it was her choice and she's entitled to decide for herself.

Yes, at 84 she should have been at home, not nursing.