A Letter to the editor

I found the tone of the article, “Death should not be your decision” to be unnecessarily harsh and insensitive. At this moment, there is a 29-year-old wife and daughter who is about to die and she is more than likely terrified. She did not choose to be diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She did not choose to be given six months to live. But she is choosing to relieve her family from watching her suffer through the blindness, paralysis and loss of cognitive function that accompanies this type of cancer. Instead of using these few days before Nov. 1 to decide she is not brave, question the worthwhileness of her last moments and determine if she is suicidal, what if we take a different approach? What if we choose to love her, promise to pray for her, and hope there are people in her life that will lead her to Christ? In the end, her days on this earth, whether they are before Nov. 1 or extend beyond that, are not the point. It’s where she will be after she takes that last breath. Isn’t that what really matters?