Recently I posted about Spain’s upcoming decision to allow ‘death with dignity’. Over the next several posts I’d like to share some of the thoughts I received. Here is the first:

“Tell me about it. This time last year my neighbors mother, aged 90, whose house I bought, was given a few days to live. She was kept alive for 5 months, only by the machines. At the same time the next neighbor’s mum was given the same time to live. The daughter came over from Mallorca and stayed until January & they’re still keeping mother alive. It’ll be a year in 10 days time. It’s unbelievable, the poor old dear, who’s 95, had severe Alzheimer’s anyway & now is just fed by tubes, knows no one, can’t speak, as far as the son is concerned she died a long while ago & he’d like to give her the dignity she deserves & should have had a long while ago.”

~Gus

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
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