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    Commentary: A good death on hospice for my mom after the horror of brain cancer

    by Paul Thornton, Los Angeles Times Aug 23, 2023 2 minutes
    OPED-GOOD-DEATH-COMMENTARY-DMT.

    My brother’s text the morning of Aug. 2 was urgent: “Her breathing has just now shifted. … I think we’re closer, not there but closer.”

    Our mother was dying, but not in the gradual way she had been since her brain cancer diagnosis in May. This was “active dying,” the end-of-life phase where breathing and circulation rapidly slow until they cease.

    My brother was with nurses at our mom’s bedside,

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