Using the guest route to stay anonymous to SOME of my friends here. Some of you will figure out who I am in an instant.

My brother is dying. I know he is dying. I was with him an hour ago. I am guessing weeks.

His wife was smiling and joking. She was washing his baseball caps for when he gets better.

I talked to my mother after I visited. I just said that he was looped from the increase in meds on Monday and again today. She said she hopes the morhpine, the oxycontin, the... help him through the pain until he gets better.

I just got off the phone. My best friend said that the modern treatment is amazing and he may be "out of it now", but, that's just because the effects of the treatment have to be countered with pain meds that and my brother will come out of this just fine.

I told my brother that I loved him and I held his hand.

Why can't they do the same? for his sake?

Sorry about being so heavy, but, here it is. Do I go along with them or do I tell them to acknowledge the (possible) truth and have their final words? Not his wife, of course, but the other friends and relatives.

Your advice would be appreciated.