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Published December 20, 2012

Suicide wasn’t the last option

KAYE CARLSON

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don’t think a recent letter writer should be proud of his aged mother for committing suicide. Instead, he should feel grief that it came to that. She did not want to be re-admitted to a hospital. Hospice members will come to the home to offer solace and comfort during one’s last days. Suicide: It did not have to come to that.