Last spring, while spending time with a man in his 80s, with his wife and two sons at his side, I heard a familiar gurgling sound, the same one my father made during his final hours.
“I know it sounds as if he’s in pain, but he’s not,” I told one of the sons.
“Please keep telling me that,” he said.
I explained that his father wasn’t able to clear secretions from his throat or airway…
