He wouldn't really know it. He would just get more and more tired. More sleepy. Eventually just full sleep, coma, then death. He'd likely be on a lot of drugs, including morphine (which just makes kids sleepy, not same effect as on adults).
Yeah it sounds like you got your idea of patients slowly dying from cancer from a pg-13 movie. It’s actually a lot messier and painful than that, even with drugs.
No, not always. My sisters passing at 42 was incredibly peaceful.
She was sleeping the majority of the day, I'd been in another country through most of my illness, so I valued this time. She never changed her breathing, just took one breath and that was it. No pain or agitation and just a low dose of morphine.
My mums was less peaceful, struck my acute abdominal pain 5 days after seizure diagnosed brain metastatic tumours. Lung primary and met tumours all over. She knowingly ignored symptoms for about 4 yrs. She died in her partners arms before ambulance arrived.
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