This is posted in the waiting room of an Irish hospital. Interesting glimpse into their culture.
The full text of the poster
This symbol has been developed by the Hospice Friendly Hospitals Programme to respectfully identify the End of Life.
This symbol is inspired by ancient Irish history; it is not associated with any one religion or denomination.
The white spiral represents the interconnected cycle of life, birth, life and death.
The white outer circle represents continuity, infinity and completion.
Purple has been chosen as the background colour as it is associated with nobility, solemnity and spirituality.
In this hospital the symbol may be displayed on a ward to add respect and solemnity during end of life or following the death of one of our patients.
I learned that in children’s hospital’s, the symbol is a butterfly. I could never look at a butterfly quite the same way after that.
not associated with any one religion
Celtic pagans beg to differ I imagine
is that Trisquel GNU/Linux?
Isn’t this one of the items you get in Zelda, Skyword Sword? Or maybe OoT?
isn’t this Brigid’s symbol?
That woild be St Brigid’s cross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigid’s_cross
Ah, thank you. For some reason I had the goddess Brigid associated with the triskele and maiden/mother/crone but there’s so much overlap nowadays between goddess and saint that it’s hard to find reliable sources on what was who.
Ran by air benders?
I thought water benders were more likely to be healers.
Looks like the Airbender symbol.
Triskelion/trisquel and I really wonder why they appropriate and add bullshit meaning to a religious symbol. That’s really weird.
I was gonna say, it looks like the logo of the Linux distribution Trisquel. I guess, that’s not surprising after all. 😅
Why do they need a symbol for that? Can’t they just don’t put any symbol? What does a symbol add?
At the vet I’ve seen a candle that they light when someone brings in their pet to be put down. It lets other patients know the terrible suffering the family is going through and allows them to be respectful to that. I’m guessing this symbol serves a similar purpose.
How would you mark the room where someone just died. Maybe their family is there grieving.
“Please don’t disturb” is slightly silly to put on a door handle
Maybe our customs are different. Usually this situation is very short and by the time you hangbthe sign, the person would already be transferred to the morgue. I lived in a similar situation where we had a family member die by night and by the time we reached in the early morning we went directly to a specific cleansing area. So it is very obvious what is going there.
We are Muslims and time from death to burial usually takes less than 24 hours.
Have you heard of an Irish wake? Traditionally they would throw a big party celebrating the life of a lost loved one and everyone would hang out with the body for 1-2 days
24 hours? That’s not nearly enough time to fully exploit the family’s grief for as much money as possible.
Sometimes not even enough for geographically far relatives to come for a last visit.
Well, yeah, there’s that, too, but will no one think about the MONEY? Raping a family’s grief is an American tradition!
Then why do they put those door handle holes in the signs?
I’ve never seen one. Basing my question on the laminated display. Ifvtheybhave a big deck of door handle signs, then of course it is very quick.
A triskel… odd choice
Could just use F
Kinky. Someone should probably have googled who else have adopted a triskelion as their symbol.
Ill bet 100 quatludes they did not.
Does anybody else get upset because it is not centered?
Maybe it is a great way to distract those that are dying.
“Why is that sign they put up all wonky” instead of
“Oh god I see the spectre of death and he has a ball gag!”Pretty sure it’s centered.
What makes you say it’s not?
The two lower swirls are closer to the circle than the top one
Ohhh. I was looking only at the big circle.
The hospitals I have been in recently in the US use a purple butterfly for the same purpose…it’s really sad to see when walking around.
I came here to say it looks like the trisquel gnu Linux logo https://trisquel.info/. But found out from your comments it is the Celtic trisquel symbol. Confidence? I think not.
It is the same lol, that’s where the Trisquel concept/logo is from
end of life symbol. is this the windows 10 logo?
