IT HAPPENED TO ME…
Oct 08, 2020
4 minutes
Family ghosts
Helen Lauer’s account of events surrounding the death of her father [FT393:72] was very moving and interesting. It reminded me of my mother’s last days in the summer of 1982. She was 68, had had about a decade of ill health and for the previous two years had been having treatment for cancer with all the usual ups and downs it brings. My father had died after a very short fight with the same disease the previous autumn and she had deteriorated since, also finally showing signs of dementia.
My brother and I looked after her at
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