100-yr-old watched her daughter die (India)

November 21, 2011 // Posted in Sad stories  

100-year-old Flame Drake lay helplessly in bed while her daughter died of a cardiac arrest in the same room. Neither the death or the distressed and dehydrated mother were discovered for two days. Old-age homes in the city [Mumbai] don’t want to take her in. “We have no one to take care of her after 10 pm. We have locked the door for her own safety. She is anyway bedridden and can’t move,” Charles Duckworth, the manager of Christ Church, told Mumbai Mirror. Full story: Helpless church locks up 100-yr-old who watched her daughter slowly die.

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