Faith Makes It Easier To Die
I'm sorry if I offend people who don't believe, but it is my belief, based on my observations as a respiratory therapist who gets to know many people near the ends of their lives, that Faith makes it easier to die. Faith makes the transition from life to death easier. When I first started out as a respiratory therapist, I remember seeing people in the end stages of their diseases reading books. I see them watching the news. I'd see them worrying about paying bills or fixing a computer at home. I just couldn't fathom why they would be trying to educate themselves, or why they'd spend time worrying about trivial things when they knew they were going to die. How could they do that? Why would they do that? There was one lady I remember in particular. She was told she had basically no heart left. She had an ejection fraction of 20% or something like that. She was essentially told she was going to die, and might not even make it out of the hospital. And she didn't. Bu...