"Rachel found her mother nearly unresponsive, with her eyes not closing and her mouth drooping. Marsha's toes had started to turn black due to reduced blood flow as her body began to shut down."
"Rachel was committed to honoring her mother's wishes for a natural death without unnecessary suffering, stating, 'I was committed to that with every fiber of my being.'"
"Despite the staff's refusal to administer morphine, Rachel took matters into her own hands, dabbing the liquid opioid along the inside of her mother's dry, cracked lips."
Rachel Waters rushed to her mother Marsha's side in a memory care facility as she was dying from advanced Alzheimer's and multiple myeloma. Marsha, 74, was unresponsive and in agony, having not received food or fluids due to her do not resuscitate order. Despite staff claiming Marsha was comfortable, Rachel insisted on morphine to ease her mother's suffering, recalling Marsha's wishes to die naturally without unnecessary pain. This act of compassion led to scrutiny and conflict with the facility's staff regarding end-of-life care.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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