My heartfelt condolences for

miguelitoh2o — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:18:29 +0000

In reply to Death Panels: Republicans Find Yet Another Way to Disrespect Americans

My heartfelt condolences for your loss, and commiseration for what you had to do. My father, two sisters and myself held vigil 8-1/2 years ago as my mother died a long slow death. In her final night we tried to get the nurse on duty to administer a higher dose of morphine, in the hopes it would end her suffering in the final sense. The nurse was not comfortable doing that, and I sat with my Mum as her doomed body refused to give up. When her doc, (a personal friend of the family), came through on his morning calls, and we asked him if there was not something he could do to end it, he removed her oxygen tubes, and she was dead within 20 minutes. He was a good doctor.

The pseudo debate being conducted on the end of life counseling by the Rs and the press is obscene. Thank you Orlando for taking the time to share your and your mother's story.

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My heartfelt condolences for