Posted by floatingbridge on September 22, 2011, at 13:46:57
In reply to Re: McDonald's drive thru on Seroquel, posted by sigismund on September 22, 2011, at 12:42:43
>I need help dying.
When my father died of mesothelioma (lung cancer; his asbestos induced), he was ready to go, but yes, he was afraid. A number of times he felt himself slipping away, and he said it was his body that stopped him. He said it was a fear that he identified as originating in his body.
He refused morphine most of the time, but when he died, he was gasping, unable to speak. He was offered the morphine and he took it; he consented to four times his usual dose. It certainly wasn't a lethal dose, but it was his morphine pillow as some nurses and hospice workers call it. He relaxed and died within five minutes.
I dig a pony.
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