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In reply to the discussion: Stage IV lung cancer [View all]no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)2. For Mom, I think it was the realization of impending death.
Again, without telling her, Dad had her put on morphine, wherein she lapsed into what he called a "coma," but in reality, it was a drug-induced sleep that allowed her to avoid the horror of trying to take a breath and nothing happens. She didn't know.
I was with her at the end, counting the seconds between inhalation and exhalation, until the last breath.
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