She was forty-eight.Hers was along harrowing death with remissions and tatters of hope and experimental treatments and long stretches of sheer suffering alleviated by morphine oblivion.

• 母亲病故的过程漫长而又痛苦，病情时缓时急，尝试了各种疗法，希望一次次破灭，长期忍受着靠吗啡才能减缓的彻骨疼痛。