Should I stay

I have read many of your heartbreaking stories about staying with their Dad until he passed and then being traumatised by the passing. I have spent the last 7 days by his hospital bed but can't watch him fade further away. I have said goodbye and told him I loved him. Am I being weak and selfish by not staying until the final moment? 

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  • Its not selfish most don't want to be watched dying, I tried to stay with my mum and she waved me out of her room like get going cos I am, if you know what I mean. We talked before she was to ill to answer me and told me its personal probably like being watched on the loo. I take comfort in her not wanting me to see and possibly being traumatised by it. I watched cancer take so much of her away, her strength, fight and a truck load of weight but her spirit and sparkly eyes were there and her wit and even as an adult my mum protected me.

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  • Its not selfish most don't want to be watched dying, I tried to stay with my mum and she waved me out of her room like get going cos I am, if you know what I mean. We talked before she was to ill to answer me and told me its personal probably like being watched on the loo. I take comfort in her not wanting me to see and possibly being traumatised by it. I watched cancer take so much of her away, her strength, fight and a truck load of weight but her spirit and sparkly eyes were there and her wit and even as an adult my mum protected me.

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