NPR recently broadcast a heart-wrenching and honest look at death by the dying man himself. Stewart Selman knew he was dying of a brain tumor when he began recording his thoughts on the process. The 22-minute NPR segment takes you through some of the key moments and features insight from Selman’s wife. It’s worth your time.
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1 MichaZuk // May 25, 2006 at 9:35 am
This article, A Year To Live, and also Yancy have left me thinking about death. How morbid…
should’nt be. If we believe as Christ has told us, how could one not feel excitement at the throught of Heaven.
My mother and dad took great pains to build my Christian foundation (I fought it tooth and nail) But after my mom’s death over four years ago, I began to question the strength of her faith. She had battled colen cancer and severe arthritis for the last ten years. At the age of 76, she had a cyst removed from her intestines. The operation was “botched” and had to be done again two days later. I was in ICU with her when she began to cough. I cried uncontrollably from her pain. As I held her, I told her…Mom, you have taught me about Heaven…we will all be together…you won’t suffer anymore..”Its ok to die.” It took every bit of her strength to say..I’ll fight this until my last breath. And she did. She came out of ICU a week later and then to Patricia Neal Center and then finally home, where she died two weeks later.
For some time I struggled with this…Did she really believe in Heaven? If so, why not accept the chance to go…she had had a rewarding life.
One person explained to me that within our DNA, there is a “survival gene” and that at times of danger or possible death, this gene kicks in and we react accordingly.
I try not to go into this area of thinking, but just remember my mother for the gift that she was.
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