Alright, I have a question and I didn't know where to put it, so it ended up here. Sorry if this doesn't quite fit this forum.
My mom has terminal cancer. She has a living will, stating that she does not wish to be kept alive by artificial means. So, for example, if it ends up where she is on a feeding tube and is still able to make decisions regarding her care, that's fine. However, if she were to slip into a coma while the feeding tube is being used, she wants it disconnected.
And she has made ME power of attorney to do so.
My question: What does God think of this? Am I doing wrong by following my mom's wishes and basically letting her starve to death? Or am I to keep her alive at all costs? I'm just not sure how to handle this if (or when) it happens.
I'm so sorry to hear about your mom(you idd say its your mom?). My heart goes out to you and her. May God Himself bring her healing according to His will.
I went through this with my girlfriend and her husband two years ago come this November 25th. He had a heart attack, tripple-bypass, and three days after heart surgery, he suffered a stroke and started bleeding on the brains. The bleeding was too close to the spinalcord for the doctors to operate. The doctors said there was nothing they could do, because they could not stop the bleeding unless they did surgery, but this was not an option because of the location of the bleeding.
He was on life supports, and the works, but we never stopped praying for God to intervene, more so now that the doctors had done all they could do. It was very dark during this time, and he had only 20% use of his heart, so it was touch and go... the doctors took my girlfriend through the necessary preparations for his death, and told her that, if he he should live he would be a vegatable. But she told the doctors, God didn't make human vegatable, and she was not pulling the plug, and would turn this over to the Lord.
Well, all the doctors ordered that he be made comfortable and stopped all medications. Five days after they had stopped meds, he opened his eyes and began to move his legs. They did x-rays and found that the bleeding had stopped, and immediately began rescuing him. Today, two years later. he is walking and if he walked in the room, you would never know he had had a stroke or had been sick, unless he tried to speak or use his right hand. He is unable to speak in sentences, but he sure can say a few curse words when he can't make you understand what he is trying to say(smile)... he has limited use of his right hand but does use it.
So I would say to you, no matter what it looks like or what the doctors or your mom may say, and no matter what... you put it all in God's hand and listen to what He has to say. Sometimes when the plugs are pulled on people, we never know where that person is in their communicating with God, in their repentance of their sins. There is so much unfinished business I do believe many people have been cut off from with God, by family members pulling the plug on a loved ones, at their counsel or that of doctors saying they are brain death and there is no hope. There is always hope as long as God lives, even if it is their time to die.
And although the doctors say they are brain dead, on this side of heaven, we never know where they are with God while they are sleeping. How many times you have also heard about people in comas for 20 yrs, and the doctors say they are brain dead and they then return back from their sleep well aware of what's going on. Or even doctors telling people there is no hope and they have only six months to live, yet the patient out lives the doctor by 20 yrs.who gave the death sentence.
My prayer, is for her healing, and that God will grant you the peace in knowing He's got your back . Because the doctors can only tell you what they know from books they have read and it has nothing to do with what God has said in HIs book the Bible, that He has written. This may be long, but I hope you will know that I am in prayer for you and your mom. Just keep doing what you're doing and let God do His work according to His plans, purpose and perfect will, and you not worry about pulling the plug or what you should do. Be still and know that God has not left His throne and if and when its time for the plug to be pulled, let God be the one to pull it.
May God's grace and peace of comfort be with you, and may God touch your mom's body and rasie her up. Amen!:glow::angel:
I see you posted this on the 11th. Sorry, I'm just getting around to respond, but I have been very busy with a church, putting together a fundrasier for the 25th of this month therefore, my time has not been my own of late. Just thought I would pop in before going off to bed to check my messages and saw your post.
Be encouraged. Be still and know... Keep the faith, and keep looking to Jesus the author and finisher of your faith. He will never fail you.:dancingp:
