A heartfelt and beautiful letter from a mother of four who is dying of cancer to the young woman who has decided to end her own life on November 1, because she too has been told she is dying. Here are just some of the loving words from one dying woman to another: Suffering is not the absence of goodness, it is not the absence of beauty, but perhaps it can be the place where true beauty can be known. In your choosing your own death, you are robbing those that love you with the such tenderness, the opportunity of meeting you in your last moments and extending you love in your last breaths. That last kiss, that last warm touch, that last breath, matters — but it was never intended for us to decide when that last breath is breathed. But in my whispering, pleading, loving voice dear heart- will you hear my heart ask you, beg you, plead with you — not to take that pill. Yes, your dying will be hard, but it will not be without beauty. Will you please trust me with that truth. I pray my words reach you. I pray they reach the multitudes that are looking at your story and believing the lie that suffering is a mistake, that dying isn’t to be braved, that choosing our death is the courageous story. wow…. powerful! Prayers for both of them… especially on the day we celebrate All the Saints in Heaven, November 1.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 22:23:17 +0000
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