Particularly if cognitive impairments were involved, I'd want to look into memory support units, which allow much more freedom than a nursing home is set up to do. If you end up looking back and saying, 'Gee, we should have done this,' or 'We should have done that,' the heartache is going to be with you for the rest of your life. I just think it's terrible. I think they should do it at their own pace. In retrospect, you realize that time heals.
People heal at their own speed.
I think it was important for him to get remarried. Couples no longer want them. My mother's 75. She came from a time when, as a woman, you were somebody's daughter, somebody's girlfriend, somebody's fiancee, somebody's wife, and then you became somebody's mother, but you were never your own person. They didn't even drive.