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Barbara Dalicandro Daggett remembers feeling some sense of peace that day in 2000 when a doctor explained that her mother was dying.
Mary Dalicandro's lungs had filled with fluid, and she could no longer breathe on her own. But the headstrong 80-year-old's wishes were clear. A hospital was out of the question, and Mrs. Dalicandro didn't want a machine doing what she couldn't do on her own.See the full content of this document
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Families Know Private Pain
When she quietly slipped away two weeks later, she was at home, in her own bed, surrounded by those who loved her. It was sad, of course, her daughter recalls but it also felt right. "She was a very dignified woman," Daggett says, "and she would not...
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