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At times, with other doctors, we as a family were made to feel that we didn't love Karen enough or that we wanted her to die and that was very, very hard for us. But certainly everyone supported her. Her mom and dad took care of her every day, and this was hard on them only because it's impossible to watch your child die, not because they thought what Karen was doing was wrong.

JoEllyn Schultz

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