What My Mother Didn't Talk About (2020)
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·July 17, 2025comrade1234
tejohnso
> at the same time they slowly killed him with the morphine stopping his breathing, thankfully.
Yeah, some places have two forms of assisted death available. Fast assisted death, or slow assisted death. Either way, you're getting medical assistance through the dying process. Not sure why some people feel like slow assisted death should be the only option.
pirate787
Its funny we don't have "legal" euthanasia but hospice stopping feeding and fluids, or overdosing painkillers, is a more horrible form of it.
Swizec
We do have ~~legal euthanasia~~ assisted suicide! Several countries and even some US states have some form of it! Just not widely advertised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide_in_the_United...
JKCalhoun
(The original link broke with my ad-blockers turned on, the archive though is missing one photo from the original article.)
A very powerful read. I lost my mother two years ago and this resonates.
Just realized I read one of the author's books, "How to Get into the Twin Palms".
weinzierl
If you wondered too which condition her mother had I can spare you the read (or the copy paste in your favorite LLM).
The condition is never named in the article.
nick__m
I am pretty sure it's metastatic lung cancer. The clues are various mention of lungs and the stage 4 in the beginning of the article. [I was wrong it was breast cancer]
EUSSR
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Similar to when my mother died of cancer while I was in high school but one big difference was how rational and aware the mother in this story was compared to my mother on her last night and day while undergoing hallucinations from the incredible pain she was experiencing. There were moments where she would recognize you and grip your hand and then she would be lost and rambling and saying nonsense and completely separate from us in another world until finally she took her last breath.
This was at-home hospice. Very different than when my father died of ALS a few decades later and the nurses were knowingly and purposefully giving him morphine so that he could suffocate in peace as his diaphragm stopped working but at the same time they slowly killed him with the morphine stopping his breathing, thankfully.