Question about Brittany Maynard and brain cancer.

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6. Thank you for the information.

She lasted 14 months after treatment, chemo and all that. It was hell watching her lose control of parts of her body one section at a time. Her death destroyed me and my parents. For a long time. It's been over 20 years now, and I can still get messed up over it.

She had chemo, surgery, a drainage shunt for CSF, and all that. She worked for the head of the pathology dept. of the largest cancer hospital in the world.

I found out what the most horrible sound I've heard was.

It is Cheyne-Stokes breathing. The autonomic system goes into a feedback loop of fast-shallow and fast-deep breathing before the respiratory center finally fails. Happens in the last two or three days near the end.