I have never had a stay in hospital, but I have visited people who have. When you visit someone in hospital they are usually in bed, and if you have ever had to stay in hospital you probably spent most of your time there in bed. Whenever I have been visiting someone in hospital, and this would probably be even more so had I spent time in hospital, I cannot help but wonder how many people have died in that bed. 
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Interesting thoughtâs I wonder what the comparison on deathâs in nursing homes is, would there be more who go through hospital and survive than die.
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People always seem to be snuffing it in nursing homes. If I were visiting a nursing homes, I would just assume that all the beds had a good history of death.
Indeed, but mostly those Iâve visited in hospital have come out alive.
Yes, but the beds probably get shuffled around a bit, and some parts of a hospital seem to be more death prone than others.
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Deaths are highest in Resus, Intensive Care and CCU, as is to be expected.
When you are moved from one place to another it is normally on your bed, so they do get moved around quite a bit.
Only you would have these thoughts 
Having been in hospital, I can say that my thoughts were when to get out and go home. I gave no thought to the bed or who may have been there before me, or what might have happened to them. I have no feeling of ownership over the bedâŠits something you lie on until you are allowed to leave. Frankly I was glad it was a bed and not a trolley! 
Well I think that if I were in hospital, it is something that I would wonder about; particularly as I was trying to get off to sleep.
haha! Sleep? Oh my wordâŠno no, thereâs no sleep in a hospital. 
No, too worried about dying in bed I expect.
A person did come round and ask me about my thoughts on that. I politely told her that I didnât want to have that conversation right before my operation thanks very much
Donât you have the same thoughts when you stay in a hotel or b&B bed? Not how many have died but how many have farted or erm âhuggedâ there?
I have probably stayed in fewer hotels than Iâve made hospital visits. Not because Iâm an avid attendant of the sick, but because Iâm not much of a traveller. It probably has crossed my mind that the hotel bed I am sleeping in has seen much âhuggingâ (I assume you mean shagging), but, unlike the situation with hospital beds, I am never kept awake worrying that it might happen to me.
Harbal - you would be lucky if they let you lie about in a hospital bed. These days they have âthrough-putâ targets to meet - so they like you up - dressed - mobile - and out of there as fast as possible!
Hospital beds âŠ
What are thoseâŠ
Oh yes those things we used to lay on in hospital âŠ
In my local hospital they donât seem to use them now you wait outside in an Ambulance and if you are lucky get to spend many hours on a trolly.
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Spot on Meg, been there, done that, over 12 hours on a trolley in a crowded corridor at the height of Covid.
It is horrible.
One of the advantages of a medical history like mine is that I am on the system.
I call an Ambulance, nothing shows up on the basic EGG, etc, I just look horrible and my BP has tanked, well below the level at which most would be unconscious.
The Ambulance Crew ring the hospital.
I still have to be be assessed in the Ambulance, that is the NHS for you.
It is done immediately, the doors are opened outside, the medic looks in, take him in and straight into Resus, no waiting around at all.
You are on a trolley in Resus, wired up, oxygen and lines put on, pumped full of Morphine or Heroin and a Clot Buster Injection.
Then either Intensive Care or CCU as soon as, some times minutes, sometimes hours, but in Resus you do get the full treatment, you get a specialist nurse by your side at all times.
I cannot fault the NHS for emergency care, it is a disaster on discharge and follow up.
Itâs nice to wake to such cheerful conversation. Harbal regardless of how many people passed in that bed, Iâm quite sure the bed was not responsible. In this state of the game billions of people have died over the years it would be hard to find a place were no one had ever passed.
Nobody ever died in my bed, Danny. 
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