The doctor told me she would be on a ventilator for the rest of her life. My mother always told me that there were two things she didn't want. She didn't want to go to a nursing home and she didn't want to be on a breathing apparatus. I had them remove the ventilator two weeks ago. She was comfortable when she passed on.

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For the last 15 years of my mother's life she was in a vegetative state, but she was breathing on her own.

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My mother will be buried tomorrow at 10 o'clock in her final resting place at Oak Ridge Cemetery. We want to move on. . . . We will go to the courts to protect our mother.

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