On March 30, 2003, Lillian VanZandt, an 83-year-old White woman, died at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, after what her family believed was an ordinary hospital vigil began to feel like something darker. Her daughters later said that, in the middle of their mother’s long illness, the nurse assigned to her care spoke to them in blunt, unsettling terms about how hard the road ahead would be and urged them toward letting their mother die, a moment that stayed with them long
...Read More
Account
