-The Death
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On Saturday the 8th of June, at 12:40, some of my family and me had just witnessed my mum's final breath.
At that point, every member of my extended and blended family began to cry, or found themselves unable to do anything but look at her, and then at each other. For a moment, it was as if we needed to experience each other's experience in order to be able to grasp the full magnitude of the situation.
In addition to the group of family and friends, an attending nurse sat outside the room and infrequently came in to add another dose of painkiller (an opioid: diamorphine, otherwise known as heroin) and the sedative