How would you like to die?

I'm not being morbid, but I am just a little disturbed with the passing of a close friend's younger sister. Micoy had been sick for a long time, she had nine brain surgeries to take out a brain tumor that keeps on recurring, was bedridden the latter part of last year and was immobile, unseeing and could no longer speak the last days of her life.

Priests, nuns, family, relatives and friends were prayer warriors who prayed for her healing and recovery for years, but it was a downhill struggle for someone who was still young and single. Later on, we realized that perhaps we were praying for the wrong thing to happen. We kept on asking God to prolong her life, but she was suffering because of it and she was skin and bones, with the left side of her skull sunken, because part was taken out and stored somewhere in her tummy so that it will be placed back sometime when the tumor is gone.

So, we told our friend that perhaps we should pray for God's will to be done instead of insisting on our own wishes, because her condition was deteriorating and her family was so much affected financially, physically and emotionally already. It was in this state of abject despair that her family watched and waited for her struggle to live to end. And her last gasp to breathe ended this morning.

I do not like to die the way she did and would not wish the same ordeal to my family, so, praying this beautiful Prayer of St. Therese is a plea for a peaceful passing over when the time comes. Please allow me to share this prayer with you.

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Dear Jesus,

Thank you for the gift of life. Thank you for the gift of sight. Thank you for all things and especially my heart.

I know You hold me forever in the palm of Your hand and shield me with Your Holy Face. Yet as years go by, Lord, I fear the yoke of sickness and pain and worry how my life will end.

And so I humbly come to ask You Lord, that when my time comes to leave here below, do not call me by sudden death, not by accident that tears the body apart, not by illness that leaves the mind confused or the senses impaired, not at the mercy of evil forces, not with a heart filled with hate or a body racked with pain, not abandoned, lonely, without love or care, not by my own hand in a moment of despair.

Jesus, let death come as gentle friend to sit and linger with me until You call my name.

Then let me enter Your heavenly Home to be near You forever and look upon the divine countenance of Your Holy Face.

Amen.

I wish you and her family the best in the coming days. May her soul find rest now.

I believe that our spirits grow stronger....and become more compassionate... through our experiences of adversity and suffering and also when those whom we love struggle...that is why we are incarnated here on the earth... to learn about love and giving--especially when it is hard--this makes the soul shine even brighter...and I think that such bright souls must surely bring a greater joy to God and the universe. Keep shining Mariter, Hugs

I've been opening this thread few times but I'm too speechless to say anything. May her soul rest in peace.
And Mariter...again I'm speechless..so I'm gonna quote MaryMeg's words "Keep Shining".

Thank you, Niek! Yes, her body has finally rested and her soul is free of pain, may she be happy now.

MaryMeg, you are back and we finally get to see your beautiful face! Thank you for the kind words and I will keep shining together with you and our blorum friends.

Ladyroses, I will tickle you no end till I get an eeeeeeeek out of you. The contemplation of death does make us speechless, but it is a cycle of life that we must accept. It may sadden us, but we must be glad for those who have been suffering so much, at least their agony is finally over.

Let us smile and keep shining brighter, life is too short to keep on contemplating how death will claim us, let us run and be free and let death chase us panting, so that he will have a run of his life too.

That so sad.. May her soul rest in peace and God give you and her the family the strength to bear with the loss. However, she is free from the physical suffering and pain. One of my friends mother had gone into coma almost twenty years ago and she is just lying in bed and does not even know she is alive. And her family have come terms to it and they even celebrate her bday but she is so helpless.