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Originally Posted by sonicl

My mum died following a stroke. She was in a coma for two weeks after the stroke, and after about three days of that coma we knew she wasn't going to come out of it. For those few days she would react in small ways to our voices, squeeze our hands ever so slightly, stuff like that, but those reactions became less and less. To be honest though, we were all glad she wasn't going to recover. Had she come round there was little chance that she would be the same person that she was before the stroke, but I don't think we could have brought ourselves to actually ask a doctor to cause her death to happen. As the days went on, we were waiting for her to die, and we all felt terrible that we were more or less praying for the death of this lady who we all loved. We all knew that she knew during her life that we loved her, but nevertheless we were saddened that weren't able to tell her that one last time. Several times she seemed as if her death was imminent, but each time she rallied and fought on. On the night that she finally died, we seemed to in some way know that the end was near. I can't say how, we just felt it, the deterioration in her condition seemed different, but despite that I went home for some rest, because there had been so many false alarms. Before I went though, I hugged her and thanked her for being a good mum. Every time that I had gone home before then I had just kissed her on her forehead and said goodnight. To this day I don't know why I did that, I just did. Ten minutes after I got home the phone rang and it was the hospital to tell me that she had died. I'm always glad that before she died I had thanked her for her motherhood.

I haven't voted on the poll, because it's just too close to home, and I know that while euthanasia seems kind for someone whose condition is terminal, the decision just isn't as easy as that.

fuck, i'm so sorry. i was going to post a smartass reply and then i read your post. for the record, i voted "yes" to terminate my own life under certain circumstances. but knowing what happened to your family, i'll shut my piehole.