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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:22:52 EST
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- From: "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Responsibility and Final Actions
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue,
- 22 Dec 1992 08:50:00 +1000 from <DIEFENBAK@TOPAZ.UCQ.EDU.AU>
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- On the contrary, Ken, I think it was just great. Kevorkian would probably
- want to tell your grandpa he'd be better off dead, and you have just stated
- the man fulfills a great purpose even with a body that will someday be
- shed for a glorified one.
-
- It's not the "shell", but what's in the shell that counts. My personal
- story is Margie next door. Cancer had shut everything down, her bowels
- were gone, kidneys shutting down, the end was near. Yet, 2 days before
- she went into the hospital for the last time, she was trying clothes on
- me that Paul and Tim had grown out of. Linda took her to the hospital
- for the last time.
-
- As she was there, she slipped in and out of coma. They had to put a cateder
- into her kidney because her bladder was gone. The last time she came out of
- the coma, she whispered to Paul, her husband, "I'm okay."
-
- She spent the next day or so, in a coma, gasping for breath, but so far gone
- there was no pain. Paul was by her side nearly the whole time, going home
- just long enough to wash, change, and go back to the hospital.
-
- What was the good? From the little the nurses did get to know Margie and
- Paul's dedication, several of the nurses said that Paul's dedication left
- tears in their eyes, and I believe several of them attended Margie's
- funeral. Paul's life touched them. I don't know if any of them accepted
- Christ as a result of this, but even so.
-
- Kevorkian would say she should be allowed to die. She did, and her life,
- though filled with pain was a glorious testimony for Jesus Christ.
-
- Maks.
-