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Originally Posted by bdabob
My mother suffered a major stroke 10 days before Xmas in 1994 and she lingered for 6 days in a "brain dead" state with no chance of recovery. It was heartbreaking for the family.
For several years prior, she would quietly raise the issue with me that if she ever got to a point where she was medically "wired for sound", I was to obey the wishes of her Living Will and let her pass without suffering. As difficult as it was, my brother and I knew that it was her wish for the medical team not to rescusitate and to keep her comfortable. I don't think we could have done that without her expressing her wishes prior to her stroke.
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My mother had also signed the same thing with her living will.
After a decade with Alzheimers and 18 months approximately in close to the end stage of it........why resuscitate? She couldn't walk, talk, and at the end she couldn't swallow. But right to the end, until she lost her speech, she had her LONG TERM MEMORY and thought she was a little girl and remembered her dad's name (he died in 1919), her mom's name, etc. but nothing else..........