General Discussion

They say hearing is the last sense people have at the end of life. Both my wife’s parents proved that in my mind.

My mother in law was in home hospice basically only taking morphine for weeks with little else. On their wedding anniversary, my father in law kissed her forehead and wished her Happy Anniversary and said she could go. She did within hours.

My father in law had a massive heart attack that left him in a coma. This happened while we were on vacation. It took us a day or so for us to get in the hospital. We told him we were there and he could go see mother (a term he used for his wife). Shortly after my wife and brother in law were discussing taking him off the machines. That became unnecessary; he passed quietly within an hour of us getting to the hospital.