But first, Rosemary asked her daughter, Mary Beth Bowen, to film her fast. Didn’t she want to see her great-grandchildren start to grow up, Mary Beth asked. “She said, ‘I’m sorry, but I have to do what’s right for me,’ ” Mary Beth said. “But you know that I would much rather have you live for another year or two,” Mary Beth says. We’ve never been closer than that last week.”In the end, helping her mother end her life felt like a sacrament.

Source: Washington Post November 04, 2019 00:22 UTC