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Budgieonaglass · 10/03/2019 20:34

I have namechanged for obvious reasons so please don't out me if you recognise me.

I'll keep this brief as I can.

I'm terminally ill and bedbound. I am being cared for by my parents at their house. I have very limited energy and my drugs make me drowsy. So I do not have many hours when I'm properly awake.

Some relatives would like to visit. I do not believe their visit will bring me any comfort.

I think their main motivation is to be able to tell their church friends they've visited. But perhaps I am being unfair. I find it hard to think kindly of them due to past behaviour and their lack of support since my diagnosis. (This is entirely their choice and we had plenty of support from elsewhere, but I don't think they should expect to be able to swan in at the end, when they haven't been there for the long haul.)

Over Christmas they had the opportunity to speak to me at a family occasion and deliberately avoided me. Despite having been complaining to other relatives that we hadn't invited them to visit. So obviously they are not that keen to spend time with me Confused

My mum wants to invite them, to avoid any family awkwardness. But I feel it would be condoning/rewarding their behaviour. They will never apologise or accept that they have done anything wrong.

Then again, I will be dead soon. I don't want to make life more difficult for my mum. I feel petty using my deathbed to make a stand.

So, would I be unreasonable to say I don't want them to visit?! It's not my house anyway, so at the end of the day I can't actually stop them, but my mum values my opinion.

AnyaMumsnet · 09/04/2019 16:41

Hi there all,

We'd just nipping in to remind you all that OP mentioned before her passing that she doesn't want to be outed from this thread - a gentle reminder for those of you who recognise OP from her other threads.

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RivkaMumsnet · 10/04/2019 10:11

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has posted on the thread, and confirm that sadly the OP has now died.

We're aware that this thread was started on a namechange, which suggests the OP perhaps didn't want it to be associated with her other posting names. For that reason, we're going to close the thread to new comments just so she isn't accidentally outed.

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