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My mom was a nurse who spent a significant portion of her career caring for people with neurodegenerative disorders. It's a very difficult thing to be in proximity of.

I remember one specific patient that was a child and his parents were going to extreme lengths to have him live like a normal kid. I forget the specific disease but for the last few years of his life he had no functioning nervous system and was kept alive by machines until the parents could bring themselves to let him go.

I think about these situations a lot and yeah -- it brings out a range of strong emotions.