My wife is in her final days and our grown children live far away but want to come say goodbye, but she's barely conscious now and I'm not sure if we should ask them to travel for something that might not be meaningful to her anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
The unpredictability of dying consciousness forces families to make decisions about presence and closure with incomplete information.
“Where Are You with Death and dying — the physical process?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.