[Boreas]

Rob, quitting isn't the same thing as acceptance. Our time here is finite. Sooner or later, we must all move on to whatever comes next. The key is to do so with grace, dignity and even happiness.

This seems to be what Florence is coming to realize. At some point the fight becomes counter-productive. It gets in the way of experience the joy of whatever time remains for us here and, really, does nothing to ease the pain of those we'll have to bid farewell. In fact, it can make the pain worse to see and to participate in an excruciatingly futile effort to deny mortality.

I learned this watching my aunt's leave-taking. (By the way, her mother's name and therefore my grandmother's name was Florence.) She fought and fought to beat the mesothelioma that was ravaging her but, when it became obvious that a lot of additional suffering would at best gain her only the smallest amount of additional time, she accepted the inevitable and shifted her focus to those closest to her, while we focused on making her remaining time, however much that might be, as easy and as joyful... and as normal as possible.

This is toughest for you, Rob, but to continue trying to forestall or to deny the inevitable only makes it harder. It can even make it harder for Florence because, by knowing how intensely you want her to stay with you, she may feel that, somehow, she's failing you. The most loving and the most caring thing you could do might just be to let her go.