Where did Coretta Die?

Coretta Scott King died this week. She was 78, had suffered a stroke and had ovarian cancer. People with this profile die, no surprises there, but the fact that she died in a Mexican alternative care facility seemed curious to me. I’ve done some digging but haven’t found answers to questions I haven’t really formulated. I have found some facts.

She died in Mexico at the Santa Monica Health Institute, a 30 bed ‘facility’ 16 miles south of San Diego.
Hmm… why would Coretta Scott King want to go to Mexico to die?

According to their website, still up as of this morning and I can’t imagine they’ll be up for long, they are the “The largest wholistic, alternative medicine hospital in North America.“
Is “wholistic” a word?

Mexican health officials shut down the hospital Thursday, saying the alternative clinic in the resort of Rosarito Beach did not have proper authorization. They were conducting surgeries, X-ray procedures and internal medicine without appropriate authorization. Other problems found by inspectors Thursday included unconventional treatments and the discovery of unknown substances at the hospital.
'unknown substances’??? I wonder what they are, guess that’s why they’re ‘unknown’.

She checked in on January 26th as Ruth Green, with her daughter Bernice, and most of the staff didn’t know who she was.
They didn’t know who she was until her medical records arrived. I wonder why she wanted to go there?

She was real sick when she arrived. She was partially paralyzed from a stroke and heart attack and suffered from complications from ovarian cancer. Seems as if the tumor was blocking her intestines and she couldn’t move or keep down food. Not real good.
The hospital, in cooperation with Mexican immigration officials, was given three days to arrange for the return of all patients to their home countries. All 20 patients at the hospital on Thursday were foreigners.
Hmmm….. so a facility in Mexico has a patient load 100% of whom are foreigners.

It just seems like a strange place for the ‘mother of the civil rights movement’ to die. I’m sure her husband didn’t want to die on a balcony in Memphis but he seemed to not have as much of a choice as Coretta would appear to have had.

I wouldn’t want my mother there.