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[quote=Anonymous]I've had one grandparent and two parents who in their 80s just "gave up" and lost the will to live. The most recent one was my mom in 2022. She was in a facility locally and I could visit her frequently and try to provide encouragement. But it just didn't take. Refused to eat, refused to get out of bed (which admittedly was hard due to her physical limitations). She would not do what the caregivers asked her to do. Nothing was "very wrong" in her final months. She'd had a respiratory infection but she had recovered from those before. Basically, being old and physically incapable just wears you down mentally. It's frustrating to watch but at some point people are just ready to go and you have to let them go.[/quote]
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