[HN Gopher] What My Mother Didn't Talk About (2020)
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       What My Mother Didn't Talk About (2020)
        
       Author : NaOH
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2025-07-17 21:43 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/BI6Cl
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       | (The original link broke with my ad-blockers turned on, the
       | archive though is missing one photo from the original article.)
       | 
       | 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".
        
       | comrade1234 wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | pirate787 wrote:
         | Its funny we don't have "legal" euthanasia but hospice stopping
         | feeding and fluids, or overdosing painkillers, is a more
         | horrible form of it.
        
           | Swizec wrote:
           | We do have ~~legal euthanasia~~ assisted suicide! Several
           | countries and even some US states have some form of it! Just
           | not widely advertised.
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide
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           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide_in_the_United.
           | ..
        
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