My aunt is a hospice nurse. She calls bs on the reports that an 87 year old terminally ill cancer patient on a steady morphine drip would sit up in the bed and talk politics. She most likely would have been unresponsive the whole time. - The Donald

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My aunt is a hospice nurse. She calls bs on the reports that an 87 year old terminally ill cancer patient on a steady morphine drip would sit up in the bed and talk politics. She most likely would have been unresponsive the whole time. (media.patriots.win)

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– onacho 25 points 209 days ago +25 / -0

Same for me, with both of my parents. My dad lasted about 24 hours on morphine and didn't even know where he was for the last week of his life. My mother soldiered on through over a week of intermittent morphine, and similarly didn't know where she was, or really anything other than she felt like she was being asphyxiatiated. I remember the last time my father squeezed my hand as if he knew me. A few hours later his hand was cold and he was blankly staring at the ceiling while breathing very deeply.

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