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Why waiting for death can feel like moral failure

My mother has been in hospice for three weeks and I sit by her bed every day waiting for her to die and I feel terrible for wanting it to be over.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The exhausted caregiver confronts the taboo wish for their loved one's suffering to end.

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“Where Are You with Mortality as teacher — death as clarifying force?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.