Breath

In yoga class today we were exploring breath. How to breathe, when to breathe in poses. I remembered something I had read that said the out breath is very hard for most people because the mind equates that action to death. I suddenly had a flashback to 11 years ago when I had the honor of being with my Mother when she died. We had three days together in the nursing home. I sang to her, read to her, hoping she was listening somewhere. I did get one big smile. The last morning I was sitting by her bed when she suddenly sat up and strongly, perhaps violently, expelled 5 breaths, one right after the other, with no inhale. Then she laid back dead.
I finished rest of the class in tears. Now I understand why the out breath is so difficult for me to do completely. With this insight now I can begin to do it properly.