That's the worst part of all this, the family members left to die alone while we are powerless to do anything. My husband's aunt died in a nursing home last year, an hour from us in the same state - but she wasn't allowed any visitor's, even family for the last 5 or 6 months of her life. Family could go to the facility and video chat with her, that was the extent of it. No physical contact, no hugs and kisses, no holding her hand or touching her face. She died alone in a room in a big city away from her home and family. I am pretty sure they called her death CV, too, on top of it all (How when she wasn't allowed contact???). She had fallen and broken her femur and was already frail and in poor health - so I would assume she died of bacterial pneumonia (which a lot of old people die from after a broken bone).

She was old and it was her time to go - so not sad about that - I would rather celebrate the life she had, and we all must go at some point.... but her dying alone really bothers me. I would have really liked to have spent more time with her, made sure she knew she was loved. That is something we can never get back.