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When you had to make end-of-life decisions for your child

I had to make the decision to take my brain-dead son off life support and even though the doctors said he was already gone, I feel like I killed him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The weight of ultimate parental responsibility becomes unbearable when the choice is between death and death.

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