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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We tried to support an out of town terminally ill sibling who was childless and single. It was hard for everyone and insufficient. It would have been better if he had a wife or partner to advocate for him daily. I noticed there were a lot of people dying by themselves in the hospital. Money cannot buy family.[/quote] Family also cannot buy family. My mother was a geriatric nurse at a Catholic hospital with attached longterm care. It was rare that there was any significant presence of the children in the elders' care -- at least, not until the very end, when these previously unknown daughters or sons would swoop in to demand "everything possible be done for my mother!" Sucks, but it is what it is.[/quote]
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