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[quote=Anonymous]I was with my mom when she died at 90.  She had been diagnosed with cancer three months earlier.  She was mostly lucid and relatively normal, although not leaving her bedroom much, most of the three months.  Two days before she died she was sitting up on the side of her bed opening her Christmas presents and talking to her kids and grandkids.  She didn't have much appetite but she did eat.

The next day she never really fully woke up.  She wasn't unconscious, she was sleeping restlessly.  She seemed to be uncomfortable so we gave her morphine on her gums every few hours (per hospice.)  We played music and talked to her and held her hand.  She had an expressed fear of dying alone so we definitely stayed with her, meaning me and my siblings.

Day two of not really being awake or alert was a little worse so we increased the  morphine to about every hour.  She died that night about 11.  We were there with her when she died.  I am very glad for that.  It was kind of hard but also somehow comforting for us.  She was never in a lot of pain but definitely some.  She had the breathing rattle the last few hours. So, that's what it was like.[/quote]

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