One Family’s Five-Year Battle for a Terminally Ill’s Mother’s Choice on How to Die
One family's five-year battle for a terminally ill's mother's choice on how to die:
Fay Hoh Yin thought long about how she would want to die after being diagnosed with incurable stage IV T-cell lymphoma in 2014.
She and her two children, Monona and Duncan, experienced a "dress rehearsal" of what her death might be like in late 2015 when her body started to fail her. At the time, doctors believed it was Fay's cancer killing her, but her heart condition, called atrial fibrillation, was actually taking the largest toll on her body.
"I was ready to die," Fay told The Independent. "I had all the horrible symptoms; I couldn't breathe and I had no energy at all. It was very painful."
[...] Suffering was one of Fay's greatest fears when it came to thinking about her death because she watched her own mother experience a painful death in the years prior.
"I had seen my own mother suffer terribly for two years, and so that made a strong impression on me," she said. "To this day, I cannot think of the happy times easily."
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