I [29F] feel like my mom [57] is trying to guilt trip me into giving her a kidney.

You should know that there are times you're going to lie or omit the truth, and that's a good thing. You don't say to someone who is dying traumatically that they are going to die if they ask, you just say something like "we're going to get you all the help you need" and redirect. There are also times it's okay to lie, in some places doctors will lie to people recovering from traumatic injuries. People really do just give up after hearing bad news sometimes. I remember this couple that lived not to far away from me at had a small private plane that the husband piloted. Well, something went wrong and they crashed into a building. The wife was DOA and the husband was critical at first and began to recover. He was doing really well after a week and it looked like he would pull through but then he asked to see his wife they had to tell him. It pretty much broke him and he died pretty quickly after

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