My Mother's Haunting End From: The Washington Post | Date: May 6, 2007| Author: | Copyright 2007 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

My mother's last scream pierces my conscience as I try to fall asleep in a lonely house. Eight months after her death, my mind still wanders to the image I'll never be able to escape: She is gushing bloody vomit as I hold her, yelling for help and pulling desperately on the call cord in her room.

No one shows up, so I have to leave her and run up and down the halls of the care facility she has been sent to, shouting for the night aides. They arrive, too late. One puts a stethoscope to my mother's heart and tells me she is gone. The cancer has killed her, as the doctors had said it would. But ...

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