kristadb
September 20th, 2009, 11:31 PM
This is a painful thing to ask...but nonetheless, here I am.
She has lost all circulation in her legs and has an untreatable and spreading infection, gangrene, no detectable pulse below her groin and now she has a blockage in her leg.
We find out tomorrow what the doctors plan to do, but amputation is high on the list. My mother is in her mid-70s and suffers from arthritis. Losing a leg will make her totally houseridden. It will kill her.
She would rather die but her religion prevents her from killing herself; she risks eternal damnation.
So here I am, being asked to pray for her. How do I ask Hecate to help my mother pass on, by her own terms, in a painless, quick fashion? Is that even something I should ask?
I don't know what is "right" or "wrong" or whatever...I just know that I don't want this to happen - and, so much more importantly, my mother does not want this to happen.
She has lost all circulation in her legs and has an untreatable and spreading infection, gangrene, no detectable pulse below her groin and now she has a blockage in her leg.
We find out tomorrow what the doctors plan to do, but amputation is high on the list. My mother is in her mid-70s and suffers from arthritis. Losing a leg will make her totally houseridden. It will kill her.
She would rather die but her religion prevents her from killing herself; she risks eternal damnation.
So here I am, being asked to pray for her. How do I ask Hecate to help my mother pass on, by her own terms, in a painless, quick fashion? Is that even something I should ask?
I don't know what is "right" or "wrong" or whatever...I just know that I don't want this to happen - and, so much more importantly, my mother does not want this to happen.