That is hard, Dave. Hope the vacation helps you with the healing...
Doug
On 20-Jun-08, at 4:47 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I have found a bit hard to keep with things this
> week, with my friend dying so horribly (they took away the feed, and
> just put on a saline drip, which is standard, uneuthanasia is done all
> the time in the hospitals, he'd even pulled out the feed tube himself
> on Sunday night, and that wasn't a convulsion, but his eyes stayed
> wide open till the end, yet we couldn't tell if he knew we were there.
> Bad stuff, eh?)
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