karent wrote:
I remember a couple dacades ago, my 28-year-old cousin was dying of pancreatic cancer. The doctors were withholding adequate morphine worrying he would be addicted - this for a life span measured in weeks!
That is very common, Karen. It makes no sense whatsoever. In Max's case, the doctors were trying to force him into chemo/radiation that was not going to do any good, anyway. That is why they deliberately withheld the pain meds. They deliberately tortured him to force him to do what was futile, but profitable to THEM. I guess you can say that in a sense, Max won, not the doctors, and not the cancer.
FYI, the day before he died, Max accepted Christ. Max, IMO, led a Christian life. He tried his best to harm no one. Max was not perfect, but neither is anyone else. I guess his acceptance of Christ was the icing on the cake, and the final chapter of a life well lived. He was not rich, and in poor health for most of his adult life, but he never complained, and made the best of it. Life gave him lemons, and he made a fantastic lemonade with them.