It important to stay alive for your children.
Gale is an ill parent with cancer, and she's in great pain.
Gale wants her pain to go away.
Gale asks the doctor to be put on stronger pain medications.
Gale gets into a car wreck without wearing a seat belt killing herself.
Gale's children get to spend more time with their mother.
Gale's children are forced to live in foster care.