article_snippet.sent: My brothers were on the other side of the country and both My brothers and her mother Connie Phillips would have wanted My brothers to be there as her mother Connie Phillips died.
article_snippet.sent: her mother lost her voice – something happened to her mother voice box, and her mother could only speak in this very high tone,' her mother says. '
article_snippet.sent: her mother was having trouble breathing.
article_snippet.sent: We were just hoping her mother would get better.'
article_snippet.sent: Connie Phillips said her mother became emaciated because her mother couldn’t hold down any food and all of her mother internal organs started shutting down.
article_snippet.sent: her mother says her mother stayed optimistic because her mother and her mother took trips to Target together and would chat which made her mother think her mother had more time to live. '
article_snippet.sent: Amber Phillips of Los Angeles gravely remembers July 2012 when her mother began to hallucinate and so her mother gave her mother consent to put her mother on the painkiller morphine which was her mother's wish. '
article_snippet.sent: After the worst day of my life to that point, I gave her consent to put her mother back on morphine, knowing that her mother would die and knowing that this is what her mother wanted,' her mother writes.
article_snippet.sent: her mother could have been surrounded by loved ones and family .