Can confirm, I had watch my grandmother die under the same conditions in hospice care, with cancer and the morphine drip. It was painful experience to say the least. Even though she was unresponsive, I had sat and talked with her as if she could still hear me. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, to pretend to be strong and collected, to a blubbering mess when I left the room. When she had passed, it was an odd "relief" because I no longer had to pretend to be strong. It was my hope that she heard me talking to her and holding her hand.
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.
Can confirm, I had watch my grandmother die under the same conditions in hospice care, with cancer and the morphine drip. It was painful experience to say the least. Even though she was unresponsive, I had sat and talked with her as if she could still hear me. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, to pretend to be strong and collected, to a blubbering mess when I left the room. When she had passed, it was an odd "relief" because I no longer had to pretend to be strong. It was my hope that she heard me talking to her and holding her hand.
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.