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Bereavement

In reply to the discussion: Well time finally ran out. [View all]
 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
7. I watched my grandma go down hill
Fri May 25, 2012, 09:33 PM
May 2012

And when the end did come for her I was relieved. It and my own health challenges that year changed how I saw death too, it's not the end, it's not a defeat, and it's better for a person to go than to suffer needlessly just because you don't want them to leave. Two years later we had all that Schiavo horse-bleep going on. It irritated me that these people were trying to force Terri to exist suspended between this world and the next. It irritated me that they were using Terri as a means to gain political support. I made sure to get my living will made right away and filed it with every hospital, doctor's office, and clinic I could think of in the area in order to say that I don't want to be kept alive if I'm in a coma that I'm not coming out of and for the reich wing pigs to stay the hell out of me and my family's business.

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