Please pray for the death of a friend
Dec 4, 2022 0:37:42 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Dec 4, 2022 0:37:42 GMT -5
Ok, it sounds like a weird request, but hear me out...
I have a friend named Mike whom I haven't seen or heard from in almost 25 years, because I moved to another state and we lost touch. I do have other friends there whom I'm still in contact with, and one of them told me that Mike had a heart attack after a bad reaction from some psychotropic drugs, and because he didn't get enough oxygen to his brain for a while he's now essentially a vegetable. He's been in a coma for over 10 years now, and his body is being kept "alive" and breathing by machines. For some reason that we can't comprehend, his family (who is Catholic) refuses to pull the plug and let the Lord determine if he should live or die.
My friend went to visit him in the nursing home along with some other people who know him, and this is what she told me:
"It was very hard to watch. We were wondering why the family is keeping him alive that way. His eyes were open...staring up at the ceiling. His mouth kept opening and closing with every breath of the ventilator machine that is keeping him alive. There is a feeding tube going into his throat. The bottles of feed are on the end table with a pink liquid in them labeled 'nutrition.'
His hands were swollen and his belly bloated. He's lost all his hair on top with some gray in the back. You can't help but think his family should release him of this."
It's a sad situation - he's not "living" in any real sense. We used to call him "Rapture Mike" because he was so excited about the rapture and seeing Jesus; I have no doubt that he'd want to be free of the prison his body has become and go on to heaven. He loved food - that pink stuff (whatever it is) even sounds repulsive. As the friend I was discussing this with said, "Someone is making a lot of money over his being in that nursing home."
So...please pray that his family agrees to take him off the ventilator and leave it to God as to whether he should live or die, or that the Lord will simply take him. His brain is mush; he'll never be "alive" on this Earth in any real sense. Thanks.
I have a friend named Mike whom I haven't seen or heard from in almost 25 years, because I moved to another state and we lost touch. I do have other friends there whom I'm still in contact with, and one of them told me that Mike had a heart attack after a bad reaction from some psychotropic drugs, and because he didn't get enough oxygen to his brain for a while he's now essentially a vegetable. He's been in a coma for over 10 years now, and his body is being kept "alive" and breathing by machines. For some reason that we can't comprehend, his family (who is Catholic) refuses to pull the plug and let the Lord determine if he should live or die.
My friend went to visit him in the nursing home along with some other people who know him, and this is what she told me:
"It was very hard to watch. We were wondering why the family is keeping him alive that way. His eyes were open...staring up at the ceiling. His mouth kept opening and closing with every breath of the ventilator machine that is keeping him alive. There is a feeding tube going into his throat. The bottles of feed are on the end table with a pink liquid in them labeled 'nutrition.'
His hands were swollen and his belly bloated. He's lost all his hair on top with some gray in the back. You can't help but think his family should release him of this."
It's a sad situation - he's not "living" in any real sense. We used to call him "Rapture Mike" because he was so excited about the rapture and seeing Jesus; I have no doubt that he'd want to be free of the prison his body has become and go on to heaven. He loved food - that pink stuff (whatever it is) even sounds repulsive. As the friend I was discussing this with said, "Someone is making a lot of money over his being in that nursing home."
So...please pray that his family agrees to take him off the ventilator and leave it to God as to whether he should live or die, or that the Lord will simply take him. His brain is mush; he'll never be "alive" on this Earth in any real sense. Thanks.