I've had two grandparents pass in a hospice. It's a weird, slow, disconnected experience, marked by brief moments of recognition of what is happening and looong stretches of distraction, disconnection, and acting as if everything is normal. It's waiting in a moment when waiting

Some things I've been tossing around... So what if...what we are experiencing today is the equivalent of a microphone being turned on that's never been on. We hear species-wide pain. And then we hear a powerful whine of feedback which affects the signal. In addition