Midlife’s A Trip

Another View About the End of Life

Posted on 08. Mar, 2008 by Karen in Inspiration

After I wrote about the last lecture of Professor Randy Paush, I got an email from someone who also saw the video and had another inspirational view about the end of life.  Many thanks to Drew from Texas who writes:

You know I lost my mom last year to pancreatic cancer.  I will never forget us sitting at the intersection of Coit and Campbell in north Dallas on the way back from her second treatment and she asked me ‘do you want me to fight this?’

I told her I would crawl through broken glass to find any treatment in the world to make her better, but if she wants to stop I will do anything to make her remaining days a wonderful testimony to the legacy that she is leaving. 

My mom decided to stop treatment and she and I spent 3 amazing months telling stories, finding her old friends, looking at pictures and praying together.  I would give anything for one more day, but I so praise God for the 3 months. 

I used to think that I want to die quickly in my sleep and I’m not a big fan of hearing you only have 3 months to live.  But really, shouldn’t we live like every day is our last no matter whether we have cancer or not?

 

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