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It could just mean a natural part of aging, or it could mean that the person is dying. Usually when someone is dying in a nursing home they give them morphine to ease the pain of death, when they do this it slows the breathing and the heart rate which can be accelerated because of the pain, and helps them to relax. That is why most people think that morphine will kill their loved one when in reality, the person administering the morphine really just wants the patient to be in less pain.

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