Mom continues to fight efforts to be helped, insisting she just wants to go to sleep and go to heaven. She wants to see Raymond Joseph. Surprisingly, after much screaming and resisting to get in her wheel chair, and refusing all food, she clearly said, "I would eat some Malt-O-Meal, I always liked that.". She ate a whole serving and took her meds herself.
The question arises to me, though, about honoring her wishes and letting her have her dignity in death, or to continue forced compliance in the midst of anger, high blood pressures and aggravation, even to the expense of Dad's health? Mom knows the Lord, and all of us know that for her to be absent from her body is to be present with the Lord.
So? Do we selfishly fight with her for fear of loss and freeing of our conscience that we tried to extend life, or do we humbly submit to her wishes and trust our loving merciful God?
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