A cancer-stricken retiree wants to die at her own time. As a Catholic, I am against that. Deciding when and how to die is playing God, amongst other ways of doing so. However, it is the most serious way of disregarding God as the Master of our lives. Also, we believe that committing suicide will cause our souls to go to Hell. Granted, she may not be a Catholic.
My mum was a cancer patient too and she suffered for 5 years. Towards the end, she was in great pain but she never once thought of this. Her gift of faith sustained her throughout the ordeal. We, as family members and fellow Catholics, saw the need to prepare her for eternal life with our God. I remembered St Joseph as the patron saint of a happy death and prayed to him for this grace on her. He did give her one. She went into a coma before her pulse stopped beating. She passed on peacefully.
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