He’s not all alone in all this. And not knowing what to do is another ploy. He needs to talk to a doctor and follow what doctors say. There is nothing one can do besides that.

Losing parents is hard but natural progression of things as people will get old and possibly sick and then things will go the way they go.

In every family someone will be getting sick and will be dying and we would never be able to end any relationship as there’s never the right time. If you stay with him because now mom is dying, next time it will be his back is hurting and he is sick or someone else will be sick. It will never end. No one is getting younger