A Book To Spark Conversation and Thought about the Dying Process

The quote from the book about inevitably choosing to live longer when the end is in sight really struck a note with me.  It is so hard to judge when one is healthy how one will feel about dying when the body and/or mind have gone to pot.  On the other hand it is equally hard to give up living and seeing and being with loved ones even though one is suffering physically and/or mentally the entire time.  Which way to turn?  I believe it is in God's hands, and not ours, to make these fateful calls.  He can best judge when enough is enough and it's time to call back the human creation to its Creator.  All we can try to do is make the best of the situation.

Wow I just finished reading your post you really can hit it right where a person is Carol. Watching my husband go through all he has I wonder at the times in his life that I insisted that they do anything possible to save his life was I right or wrong now. At the time I selfishly couldn't let him go, reflecting on it now would I change it NO. He was very young at those times and very happy even though he had already lost both legs, this man accepted that with a grace few people posses. When I do get out People ask constanly where is he. They are so use to seeing him out in his chair doing all the normal things a man with legs does. Not any more he refuse to leave the house. If I could go back and let him die those times instead of fighting for his life would I. No a thousand times No he has touched so many and encouraged so many lives it was definatly not his time to go. I hate watching him suffer but I still remember how he has touched us all and that when God is ready to take him he will and not before. Will I fight the doctors to save him NO I will not he hates what is happening to him and he knows his time grows short, I will always love him and share the memories of my one true love and my own Hero. Connie