I too have personal experience of both parents departing this world before their final demise, which in both cases was a relief.
My mother for several years had said light heartedly, and that is how we all took it, that she wished she could just "Go"
When asked why,she told everyone, that she had had her life and was just tired or fed up.She stopped her weekly Darts outing and couldn't be bothered to play along with Countdown anymore. During the last days, when we visited her in hospital, she wasn't really there, that was when the grieving started. Visits became a trial, unsure who we would see there, the women we knew, or the frail empty body that she had become.
My view of euthanasia altered during that time, Im sure if my mother could have taken her destiny into her own hands she would have done so.
And by doing so spared herself and her loved ones the continued agony.
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