Watching My Parents Die Convinced Me To Plan A Completely Different Path. My Idea Came From A Movie.
August 10, 2025
In the span of a couple of months, she broke both hips and fractured her shoulder, confining her to a wheelchair. Immobility and subpar care led to a gruesome pressure wound on her foot that her depleted, 65-pound body could never heal.
What kind of society insists on keeping a person alive in that condition? In her predementia days, my mom — always quick with a joke or a biting comment —…
