Start: Etta: Has everyone—? Tom: All...
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Tom and Etta are two of the few residents left at a nursing home in the days before it closes. Etta’s husband, Gerald, had dementia and slowly declined for the last 12 years. Struggling to cope with his increasingly diminished memory, Etta and Tom euthanized Gerald by smothering him with a pillow. After this came to light, the nursing home staff frantically argued over what to do, eventually agreeing to put him in an empty patient room. This scene happens later that night. Tom sits watching the
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Start: Etta: Has everyone—?
Tom: All asleep, I think. You doing okay?
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End: Tom: I suppose I could have said something, but I didn’t. Those were very painful months for her. I’m no philosopher, Etta.
Citation: Samuel D. Hunter, Rest, 2013, pp. 70-72.
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