TheBanyanTree: Assisted Suicide - the topic of the week

[Gloria]

Amazing story.  "Momma is waiting" .... love it!  What a peaceful departure.

Glo

On 4/27/10, NancyIee at aol.com <NancyIee at aol.com> wrote:
> Beautifully written, and I am so glad you were able to "be there" for your
> loved ones.
>
> My sister and I were there when our mom passed after a too-long battle.
> They gave her 6 months, and eventually, she was in Hospice. They were
> incredible  kind and loving to her, so much so, that she defied the odds and
> lived 7
> more  years.  She never left the Hospice, for when it was discovered she
> was not  yet "done", she had taken on another role, caregiver to those
> dying.
>
> She read to them, she fed them if they were able to eat, she wrote letters
> for them, she straightened their bedsheets and pillows. She was their angel
> when  their families could not be there. The place was run and serviced by
> a devoted  group of nuns, and she fit right in, loving caregiver to the end.
>
> At her own end, she simply slept away, though, somewhere after midnight, as
>  my sister and I kept vigil, she woke.
>
> "Momma (her mother and my grandmother) is waiting," she said, and  left.
>
> In dying, she lived.
>
> NancyLee
>