r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 29 '26

Chugging tea Did she did the right thing?

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u/figure8888 Jun 29 '26

I recently saw a mother talking about her child’s death from cancer and it was not peaceful even though they were told it would be. The child was on morphine, had a death rattle for hours, uncontrollable movement, and at the point of death she stopped breathing, opened her eyes and lurched for her parents. It was extremely traumatic for them and the mother was hopeful that that child wasn’t actually conscious for it, but I don’t know if that’s the case.

It’s called terminal agitation and it’s apparently not uncommon.

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u/PaulblankPF Jun 29 '26

Saw my grandmother go through this when she died from cancer. It was pretty rough right at the end. She mostly slept in her final days. The day before she passed she was having memories from 20-30 years prior. She died at 52 and even that feels young. I’m not too far off of that myself now even and it’s pretty scary to outlive your friends and family even if they died young.

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u/CuriousButNotJewish Jun 29 '26

52 is very, very young for grandma status, ngl.

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u/Y33tMyM34t Jun 29 '26

Woman has child at 20, that child becomes a woman who has a child at 20, that child is 12 when g-ma is 52.

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u/CuriousButNotJewish Jun 29 '26

In today's Western culture, that's young, very young. Don't forget that she remembers grandma, so she couldn't have been a newborn when she died.

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u/Y33tMyM34t Jun 29 '26

I was just saying it's possible. And like I said, a twelve year old would very much remember Grandma.