Question by AIM+e plus a Melody due 02/20/10: How do you handle watching someone die?
My step dad was diagnosed with liver cancer 2 months ago and it has rapidly progressed. He’s almost fully bedridden. He has days where he seems so normal, but for a week now he’s been in bed barely able to talk or get up. It hurts to see him dying and being alone in there all by himself. I go to his and my mom’s house everyday, my mom works during the day and has a gambling problem so usually isn’t home until 9pm at night. I go over there and make him food and stuff, but I just can’t bring myself to stay back in his room. I talk to him, but it’s really hard to just look at him in this state. How do you handle someone dying right in front of you?…..I feel so badly for him that my mom is too selfish to stick around with him, but she’s her own person and all I can do is go over there everyday to see how he is. I try to help, but I sometimes can’t stand to look at him.

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Answer by Juliet R
Im so sorry. I had to watch my own father and my great grandma die and its very hard. Just talk to him, even though you think he may be in a state where he cant hear you, he still can. Thankfully, you care about him enough to take care of him in his last days.

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