Or do you know anybody with Cancer or had cancer, and if so was the pain bearable until they died. I know being a Christian absent from the body is present with the Lord. Better to be absent from the body and present with the Lord in a spiritual body where you have all your 5 sences and living in Gory which is beyond any human mind than to be stuck in this horrible world. At least in Heaven you get a new body, and I cannot wait. My mother told me a few years ago that she used to know this old lady who had some terminal illness and she was a Christian and on her bed that she fell asleep and woke up in glory she told my mother that she lived a good life and was ready to go home to Jesus and she was very happy and peaceful. My mother being a registerd nurse has witness patients who did not know the Lord on their deathbed and it is the most terrible time of their lives and they were so scared acording to my mother who saw them.
2007-01-31 22:35:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because then they relise that if hell is real they will go there, and relise at the moment unless they call out to Jesus they are doomed, and lost forever. My mother has witness many Christians pass away into the arms of Jesus and they the majority of them were peacful and looking forward to going home to meet Jesus and to go home to their mansions.
2007-01-31 22:37:57 · update #1
Your mothers stories are biased to her religious views. The truth is that most souls cross over and your religion has nothing to do with my soul going to "heaven".
2007-01-31 23:00:51 · answer #1 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They say that there are no atheists or non believers on Death Row. I don't know if that is true or not.
I have known several people who died with cancer and other terminal illnesses; some changed their beliefs before death, and some did not. Some were peaceful deaths; some were not. It depends more on the type and treatment of the disease they have than it does their beliefs, I think.
My father died of cancer in 1972. It had metastasized into all his major organs, and he wasted away to nearly nothing before he died. He was not a Christian, but was a very spiritual man. He believed in reincarnation, an afterlife, and believed in peaceful, graceful co-existence with all beings.
But because of the time of his death (1972) the doctors would not allow him enough pain meds for a long time because of fear of addiction. It was a ridiculous assumption and treatment plan, and made no sense at all. He suffered a lot of pain, and his death was quite bad. Even though he believed in a wonderful afterlife, and knew his family was waiting for him, his transition to death was not peaceful.
By the same token, my brother died a very peaceful, serene death many years later, and never believed anything spiritual, peace-loving or serene. He had emphysema, and many other illnesses. His passing was quiet, and slipped quietly away, made quite comfortable by medications.
Both are examples that beliefs didn't play a part in their passing, but rather the conditions surrounding their passing. What happened to them in the afterlife? No one will know until later...
2007-01-31 22:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by luvmelodio 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I have a friend who has cancer and is dying. It is so hard..words cannot explain how I feel. My friend can be as painless as she wants..however, she does not want to take all the pain meds which will make her sleep all the time. She just takes enough to make the pain almost gone..but she still sleeps a lot. She has cancer in so many places..but the one in her brain is getting worse. She is taking meds that help keep the brain swelling down a little..but those meds have caused her to get diabetes etc. She falls etc.
She gave instructions that she did not want to hear about God..but I so desperately wanted to share my Jesus with her. I had many friends pray for a miracle that somehow I would be given the cance to talk with her a little. God answered the prayers and I talked for quite a while with her. She took on board what I said but still didn't want to know. I did get another opportunity..I do not know whether she will accept Jesus before she dies. I want her to so much..but I cannot and will never force her..I just needed to be able to share Him with her is all..I got my wish..the rest is up to God.
I know that most people end up pain free before they die..they keep getting the pain medication increased until one day they tell the family that at the next pain med increase the loved one most probably will never wake up..its called "legal euthanasia."
I can imagine many people being scared about dying...my friend says she is not afraid of the real end..just the lead up..she is also a nurse....I am so grateful for her...even if she does not accept Jesus. But I cannot force her to. One day soon she will be gone....I will never know if she changed her mind about Jesus.
2007-01-31 22:47:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am a hospice nurse and also lost my mother to cancer one year ago. she had some very painful times throughout her last stage of the disease but she is in heaven now in her mansion as you say and I take comfort in knowing that she is no longer in pain and that I will see her one day again.
2007-01-31 23:30:49 · answer #4 · answered by Only hell mama ever raised 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well. I've been a nurse for 30 years. I've seen a lot of people die from cancers, including both my siblings. I have yet to witness a "death bed conversion." I did hear one patient tell his daughter he accepted her god as "lord and savior," only to tell me later in private he only did that so she would stop harping on him about it and he could die in peace.
"I'm tired of her telling me I'm going to hell," he told me, "I never believed that crap anyway."
Many of the other dying patients I've cared for were already Christians or Jews, and had made their peace with their respective gods. I've been asked on several occasions to pray with families, and I make the appearence of praying in order to make the families feel a little better during an incredibly hard time. If that qualifies me as a hypocrite, so be it; in my eyes it was just another way of providing care. That I am atheist isn't the issue. The families never knew that, because unlike Christians, I don't advertise, and if they ask, I tell them I'm not permitted to discuss it (not true but it works).
Now as to painless dying: We routinely give large doses of painkilling drugs to terminal cancer patients, both for pain control and to reduce anxiety. It is standard practice in hospice care these days, all over the country. It is the one humane thing we can do to ease the suffering of an inhumane disease. It occured to me many years ago that if there are any gods, they aren't doing us any favors by allowing such diseases to ravage all of us, including babies and children. "Mercy" is in pretty short supply from your gods, it seems.
You can give me all the "thumbs down" you want, kids, but I would venture to say you'd find a lot of nurses who agree with me.
2007-01-31 23:22:51 · answer #5 · answered by link955 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I would imagine the last stages of cancer are painful. If you trust in Jesus Christ, you're right, you will find peace and happiness knowing you're going to the Lord.
2007-01-31 22:42:56 · answer #6 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
There are many ways to help cancer or other patients to be pain free!
2007-01-31 22:44:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Smoke hash,almost as good as morphene.
If someone is in bad pain it will change their whole world for a few hours.
My mother used work in a hospice too and i used deliver newpapers there when i was very small.
2007-01-31 22:40:14 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
you can give them pain killers to stop the pain because its not really eauthinasia
2007-01-31 22:39:59 · answer #9 · answered by kate m 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋