"Morphine, Consent, and the Final Week", Aurora Mizutani's latest Controversial Research
What Families Are Not Told About the Final Week When Morphine Enters the Room GET IT ON AMAZON There's a moment in many hospital rooms that changes everything. The doctor says, "We're going to focus on comfort now." Morphine is started. Within days, your loved one stops speaking. Stops eating. Stops drinking. And then - they're gone. If you've been through it, you know the feeling. The timeline feels compressed. The silence feels abrupt. And afterward, a question lingers: Did the morphine cause this? In my new book, Morphine, Consent, and the Final Week, I explore that question through research, medical data, and the story of my friend Vicky Talmadge, who died in January 2026 after consenting to morphine in the final stage of cancer. GET IT ON AMAZON Here's what the evidence actually says: Morphine, when properly titrated, is not designed to cause death. Studies do not show consistent proof that appropriately managed opioids significantly shorten surviva...