my mother literally pulled the tube out. she only put it in to satisfy her kids. she was ready go. what tjhe secularists will never understand is that it is not about life vs death, it’s about LIFE.
Hello. I have just registered on FR after lurking for a long time. The subject of this thread is something that has been troubling me for months now.
Last Christmas, my mother had her third and most serious stroke. She was 85. Her throat muscles were paralyzed as was her left arm, and she was a little hazy in her thinking, but her heart rate and blood pressure were both good.
She stopped eating, and refused a tube, taking only sips of water. She refused all forms of therapy (rehab,etc.) despite the most urgent pleas of her family and health care professionals. She just told us that her whole body was failing, the thought of eating made her sick and it was time to go.
By April, she had died, peacefully and in her own bed. But my brothers and sisters and I are still torn up from the experience. We keep thinking, she could have gone a couple of more years, but that’s pretty selfish, right?
What do you guys think?