Reply #33: The sad thing is, it's so common. I constantly worry about this myself. [View All]

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I've known it to happen to more than one person. It happened to a women I met in NY who had been with her partner for 30 years. Homophobic, distant relatives from a foreign country came in--people her partner hadn't seen in 50 years--and tried to take her out of the country so she could die "with family". Luckily her partner regained consciousness long enough to say: NO! GET THEM OUT OF HERE! If she hadn't, the women would've been sent off to a foreign country with cousins and aunts and uncles she hardly knew instead of spending her last moments with her partner of 30 years.

If that's family values then I oppose them.