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best part came a few days later. The family was in Sringfield, Illinois when she died and I was getting frantic calls from my wife every few days. I flew home and all appeared to be calm until the third day when she announced to me she wanted a divorce. There is nothing quite like a kick in the balls that was to even try to fathom.

Dayum.

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Posted by MississippiLSUfan

Brookhaven

Member since Oct 2005

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Posted on 1/4/14 at 1:08 pm to CITWTT

That's horrible. The capacity of the human soul to overcome grief and pain is amazing, though.

Congrats on coming out the other side, man. I know it wasn't easy.

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Posted by CC

Galveztown

Member since Feb 2004

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Posted on 1/4/14 at 3:34 pm to MississippiLSUfan

I'm of two minds on this. My grandfather was being kept alive on machines for a month. His lungs were filling with fluid and a machine was draining the fluid and breathing for him. When the doctors convinced my grandmother to take him off the ventilator, he drowned in about 4 days.

My father's kidneys stopped working and he was in a coma for 9 days. The doctors told my mom he was going to die on day 5 and to say her goodbyes. His BP was 60/40. They tried to convince her that it would be best to take him off the ventilator that was breathing for him. She refused and he is still alive 8 years later and goes fishing every weekend.

Doctors don't always know what will happen. There are many reasons to not go to extremes to try to "save" someone, money being the most obvious. If someone truly is brain dead, it is not cruel to keep them around because they aren't in there anymore. It's expensive, but not cruel.

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