Lek, all blasphemy aside for the moment. I watched my mom's slow decline and death unfortunately and it was a horror to witness. The nurses warned me how she would act in that decline. The last two days I saw her talking to things that were not there and even grasping and reaching for nothing. I saw last minute the robotic last motions of her lips/mouth because her brain stem was the only thing left firing off neurons. It really is no different than if you step on a daddy longleg spider and the leg keeps twitching. I don't mean to sound morbid, but that is what happens when your brain shuts down. It is like all the files get dumped out at the same time and the neurons are rapidly firing and then like a dimer switch on a light, or an old tub TV it shrinks down to nothing and the neurons simply stop firing because the brain is completely dead.
It isn't a pretty picture one bit, I hated witnessing it, but my mom's brain was her, there was no consciousness to survive her. The good thing is that she is no longer in any pain and the other good thing is I still have memories of the time I had with her.
It isn't a pretty picture one bit, I hated witnessing it, but my mom's brain was her, there was no consciousness to survive her. The good thing is that she is no longer in any pain and the other good thing is I still have memories of the time I had with her.
