Similar to when my mother died of cancer while I was in high school but one big difference was how rational and aware the mother in this story was compared to my mother on her last night and day while undergoing hallucinations from the incredible pain she was experiencing. There were moments where she would recognize you and grip your hand and then she would be lost and rambling and saying nonsense and completely separate from us in another world until finally she took her last breath.
This was at-home hospice. Very different than when my father died of ALS a few decades later and the nurses were knowingly and purposefully giving him morphine so that he could suffocate in peace as his diaphragm stopped working but at the same time they slowly killed him with the morphine stopping his breathing, thankfully.
> at the same time they slowly killed him with the morphine stopping his breathing, thankfully.
Yeah, some places have two forms of assisted death available. Fast assisted death, or slow assisted death. Either way, you're getting medical assistance through the dying process. Not sure why some people feel like slow assisted death should be the only option.
The morphine wasn't killing him - at proper palliative doses it relieves suffering while the underlying disease causes death, a crucial ethical and medical distinction in end-of-life care.
If you think the piece is to divulge which condition her mother had (which, to be frank, was pretty obvious from reading the context clues), you missed the point.
The site has a long scrolling thing which presents a box called "Continue". If clicked on, that yields a popup that says "Checking compatibility" and then loads some page called "Manuals Explorer", which then tries to install a browser extension.
The hostile code seems to come from "html-load.com".
Suggest avoiding "buzzfeednews.com" for hosting hostile code.
Dates are not given in the article, and a bit of a puzzle.
Karolina's mother died in 2019. This was supposedly 28 years after being diagnosed, which brings us to 1991. And that was when Karolina was 12. (Her DOB is defying attempts at uncovery.)
They supposedly fled Poland around ten years before communism fell, according to a remark in the story, so maybe 1980. But Karolina would have to have been an infant; she wouldn't remember anything about Poland, let alone a camp in Treiskirchen, Austria. Her mom remarked during their visit to the camp, "You chased a boy for bread. [...] You were always hungry.” So at least a toddler, perhaps as as old as 3 or 4?
Maybe they left Poland more toward the mid 1980's; not ten years before communism fell.
End-of-life care is a profoundly complex topic. Every individual deserves respect, even as they approach the end of their life. Yet factors ranging from legal and ethical considerations to human relationships and emotions mean that, even today, there is no definitive answer.
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A very powerful read. I lost my mother two years ago and this resonates.
Just realized I read one of the author's books, "How to Get into the Twin Palms".
This was at-home hospice. Very different than when my father died of ALS a few decades later and the nurses were knowingly and purposefully giving him morphine so that he could suffocate in peace as his diaphragm stopped working but at the same time they slowly killed him with the morphine stopping his breathing, thankfully.
Yeah, some places have two forms of assisted death available. Fast assisted death, or slow assisted death. Either way, you're getting medical assistance through the dying process. Not sure why some people feel like slow assisted death should be the only option.
The condition is never named in the article.
The hostile code seems to come from "html-load.com".
Suggest avoiding "buzzfeednews.com" for hosting hostile code.
Karolina's mother died in 2019. This was supposedly 28 years after being diagnosed, which brings us to 1991. And that was when Karolina was 12. (Her DOB is defying attempts at uncovery.)
They supposedly fled Poland around ten years before communism fell, according to a remark in the story, so maybe 1980. But Karolina would have to have been an infant; she wouldn't remember anything about Poland, let alone a camp in Treiskirchen, Austria. Her mom remarked during their visit to the camp, "You chased a boy for bread. [...] You were always hungry.” So at least a toddler, perhaps as as old as 3 or 4?
Maybe they left Poland more toward the mid 1980's; not ten years before communism fell.