I bet this man wasn’t suffering nearly as much as Pope John Paul II was in his final days.
such compassion you show!
We don’t know anything about this man or his illness. It is a very sad situation.
Let the flaming and judging begin!!!
I disagree for an odd reason. Pope John Paul II was afflicted, this is true, and likely feeling considerable pain. But “suffering” is an opinion, a reflection of self pity. It can be dispelled if you know that your pain has a righteous purpose, or that your spirit transcends it, and his did.
He was willing to live through his pain to his natural end as an example to others, that pain is just pain, and though it can be debilitating, it is only spiritually exhausting to the point where you want to die, when you let it. When you wallow in it.
Some people so unjustifiably indulge in pain that a paper cut can thrust them into a state of misery, suffering and anguish. They revel in their delicious self pity, feeling persecuted, even martyred, over something truly inconsequential. Even worse they cry out unto heaven to relieve them of their totally voluntary burden.
Truly this is using the Lord’s Name in vanity.
Even to his dying breath, it must have been of satisfaction to John Paul II that his end should convey one last message to the faithful.