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But like real question: Why do people ask these type of questions?

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    Dunno. Maybe it’s genuine curiosity. Maybe they’re farming upvotes and believe that something dramatic like such a question will achieve that.

    But to answer the question; almost. I came pretty close to murdering somebody. Not out of rage or anything, but out of desperation. A man was attacking my mother, choking her on her leather necklace. My sister grabbed the chopping axe. I grabbed the metal pipe, but then we just froze.

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      Oh for fucks sake. You are obviously the psycho here. Who tells a story like that and leaves off whether or not their mom is dead or alive.

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        Pretty sure if my mom died I’d be too traumatised to talk about it. The whole event already wasn’t exactly a small deal, I’d have been permanently devastated if the worst happened.

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    So I’ll actually answer since I’ve never shared this even though the post is making a joke.

    It’s not really murder I’m sure, but it has stuck with me forever. I took care of my grandmother through the end stages of her cancer as some form of “hospice” care. I was the one that gave her morphine when she needed it and essentially within days of starting it she became more and more zombified and then passed away. It happened within roughly a week. It was only after all that did learn about morphine toxicity in the elderly and realized that even though it helped her with the pain I’m pretty sure I “killed” her. :(

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      I work in palliative care, and if she was in pain and you gave her morphine according to prescription, you did the right thing.

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      For what it’s worth, if i ever find myself elderly with end stage cancer, I would consider it a kindness to be able to go out painlessly and relatively quickly.