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I recently lost my Mother after she had suffered for many years, she was 85 years old and weighed a little over 62 pounds. Her heart finally gave out and she passed on in a hospice ward, they kept her comfortable and pain free, but with no life support as she had requested, so she went peacefully in her sleep. The family, instead of pulling together and comforting each other was treated very badly by her other daughter and made everyone angry at each other due to her going off on everyone around her. She has split the family apart, and I was asked not to attend my own Mothers Funeral for fear their there would be trouble as I was blamed for things I know not what. I don't think it was right that the person that started all the trouble in the hospital should not want me at my own Mother's Funeral. But I stayed at home and grieved on my own, and alone, I had no one to lean on or give me moral support. I would not have caused any trouble out of respect for my Mother. So I had to travel all the way to Colorado Springs, Colorado to the graveside services to pay my last respects and Love for my Mother there instead of being allowed to attend her funeral. I think that it was very childish for me to be asked to not attend. And it hurts me more and more each day, as I was the with my Mother alone when she took her last breath. She was a very wonderful, loving kind and good Mother. I just hope she can rest in peace and not know what was going on around her in her hospital room. As she would have said " You kids shut up" That was my Mother, she was the best.

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