[Tennessee Nana]

She was 62?

You have got to be kidding...

I’ll be 62 in 2010...

My life is still in the teenage state...

She was stuborn? in control?...hardly...

Stuborn is not wanting to miss out on anything...

I want to know who my granddaughters marry and what color the bridesmaids dresses are..

My oldest grandchild is 12 but I intend to dance at their weddings..

This woman was a loser...a failer.. and a coward..

She gave up and gave in and didnt bother to fight...

Life is a gift from God...nobody is to take it..

Its too late for her..but dont you fail to have gumption..

God satisfies with long life...I wont be satisfied till at least 88..

And then some more years...should Jesus tarry..

[alisasny]

This woman was a loser...a failer.. and a coward..

WOW....I guess she didn't suffer hard enough for you.

[ga medic]

“My oldest grandchild is 12 but I intend to dance at their weddings..”

How nice for you. You seem to have missed the point that this woman was dying, sooner rather than later. I am sure that she had many things that she wanted to do too, but won’t have a chance. Fighting has nothing to do with it,she was going to die in the very near future, even if it was left up to God.

End stage cancer can be painful and ugly, especially lung cancer, and I would find anyone who wasn’t scared of facing it to be disingenuous. I would be, and as much as I would like to believe I have the courage to face it, I am not sure. I won’t condemn those that don’t as a coward.

I will recognize that only God should end a life. I will also recognize that she had two options, bad and worse, and try to understand that we all have weakness, yet God loves us anyway.

[Free_in_Alabama]

Unfortunately you are the failure, looser and coward. You are all too willing to force misery, pain and anguish on others in order feel secure. You know nothing of the pain, agonizing pain that does not end. She was living a hell on earth that was coming to a climatic conclusion of more pain. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemies. I believe you have your choice to suffer just as she had her choice to not. God will welcome all.

[disrgr]

This woman was a loser...a failer.. and a coward..

She was none of those things. She loved, and was loved by, many people, some of whom found her so remarkable that they did an incredibly difficult thing in coming to be with her on her last day. A person with that much love in her life is anything but the nasty things you ascribe to her. How dare you, anyway?

She gave up and gave in and didnt bother to fight...

She did no such thing. Rather than meekly succumb to pain and disease, she chose her own path. She chose not to give up her dignity and self-determination. She chose not to give in to cancer, but to choose for herself how her life would end.

Life is a gift from God...nobody is to take it..

As my wife always says, if you give someone a gift, it is theirs to do with as they wish, not yours any longer.