Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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StoryCorps recording booths are places for people to look back on their lives, and sometimes to look ahead to a time when they’re no longer here. That’s the direction this conversation took between Nidera Brown and her 66-year-old mother, Conchetta Brown, who has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and uses oxygen.

Originally aired January 19, 2024, on NPR’s Morning Edition.