A Prayer for the Dying
 

All,

My Mom, June J. McClure, is in hospice awaiting death. She is 82 and is in late stage Alzheimer's disease and is also blind as the result of some medical mal-practice. She had a series of strokes over the last few days. She has been unresponsive and has taken no food or water for the past three days.

For those of you who are believers,please say a prayer that my Mom passes easily and gently. For those of you who are non-believers, I would greatly appreciate your hopes and wishes that my Mom passes easily.
Thanks,

Tom A

You have mine my comrade in arms, along with my best to you, as I know how hard this is for you.


Ed & Terry

Tom A,

Alzheimer's disease has a strong line in my mother's family. I am very familiar with what you feel. Your mother will pass gently.

God bless her . The Gill family offers prayer and sympathy.

Tom, You have my best wishes. And take comfort in knowing that her passing will be a release.
Ron

Tom
My heart gose out to you and your family. You will all be in my prayers
Russ

You all have our prayers.

May the Lord grant peace and comfort to you all in this trying time.

Tom -

Our prayers are with you and your family. My mother passed away a few years ago at 92 under almost identical circumstances . . . and it was peaceful. May God grant you strength and peace in this difficult time.

Luke

For your mother and for you, my Heavenly Father comfort you in your time of need, and may you know that familetys are forever.

Tom,

My sincerest sympathies to you and your family. My mother works in hospice care here and frequently recounts stories of the loving care each person receives. I pray this is so for you mother.

Glen

Tom, My prayers go to you and your mom

Tom, I pray that your Mother passes gently and for you as well for the tremendous loss you will feel at her passing.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

Shakespeare

Love ya man! Jerry

As we are now they once were. As they are now we will one day be. Just try to provide the respect and dignity for who they once were as we wish for it to be for us when we are where they are. It saddens us, but all things pass. This time will too.

there is nothing like a mother's love. God's speed to her as she heads home. and to you, my favorite verse:

" Peace I give to you, my peace I leave with you....not as the world gives, but as I alone can give"... says Jesus

Tom,
You and your family will be in our prayers.

Tom, I got in rather late on this thread, and I, too, send my deepest wishes to you. It time like this that one needs siblings and family for help and support. In my field, I see this every day. It really breaks me up. I absolutely understand your feelings. If it's any consolation at all, I firmly believe the person at this stage of life is protected by her dementia and is totally unaware. It's the kin folk that need a shoulder to cry on and time to grieve and recover. God bless.

Added you all to my personal prayer list. I know your pain. I lost my mother to advanced breast cancer last June. I remember how hard it was to watch my mother pass like that. She too was on Hospice care. Hospice was a God send. May God be with you & your family.

May the Lord bless you Tom and your family in this time of sorrow. And may your mom find peace.

John 6:40
"And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

God Bless you
Michael

Tom, I said a prayer for your Mom today!

Tom,

Your Mom and you and your family are in Jen's and my thoughts and prayers. While I can't imagine what Alzheimer's disease is to deal with in either a family member or at a personal level - please know you, she and her family is not alone...

John D.

Tom,
My Prayers go with you and yours that the Passing be Swift and Easy.
Have Comfort that the time of Passing Will Raise the Veil of the Mind and She Shall be Whole and Free of any Pain and Sorrow Once Again.
Smile and take Consolation in this Tom, and your pain and sorrow will also fade away.
Viggo

Tom,

Our prayers are with you and your family. My mother passed away in'99. She had Alzheimers for 10+ years and regressed sharply at the end. I know your pain. I lost my mom when she didn't know me or anybody else which was years before the end. It is a cruel disease.

Tom,
* My prayers are with you and your family.
* May God be gentle & kind.
Bob

Tom,

I will also include your mom as well as you and the rest of your family in my prayers.

Sid.

Tom my friend,

Sorry it took so long for me to check in to the forum and find this thread...

May God comfort you and your family in your loss as He gently places your Mother in his hand for eternity... She will be in good company with those mothers who have preceeded us in this transition to our final reward... mine included.

I will pray that she will pass gently my friend.

Tom,
Your mother and family are in my thoughts and prayers
Tim

Tom,

May the Lord bless you and your family in this trying time.............may he welcome your mom into the great reward and she passwith ease and comfort........knowing that your all there for her...................

Kindest Regards, Paul

All,

Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers; it really means a great deal to me.

Was notified by hospice this PM that Mom has entered the stage known as "Terminal Agitation". I suspect God is making his plans known. The nurse says that this is a 3-4 day process. Will be headed to Georgia Friday.

I believe that the end of her journey is at hand.

Tom A

Wish you a safe journey Tom...

All,

Mom passed away quietly 1200 o5/05/05 and was buried yesterday.

I thank all of you for your prayers and kindness during this particularly difficult time.

Tom A

Do not mourn for me, for I am the trees.

Do not mourn for me, for I am the light.

Do not mourn for me, for I am the breeze.

Do not mourn for me, for I am forever with you and I am free.

Celtic Eulogy

~ Author unknown~

Please accept my heartfelt sympathy. Ron

Tom, although expected, it does not make it any easier for you. Tom, my heart goes to you, and may you feel a touch of help, however small from Terry and Ed wishing you comfort,


Ed & Terry

Tom, I am afraid from the state of my own Mothers health and condition I am soon to travel on the trail you have just passed. She has been a big part of my life and I can empathize with your grief. Like me I am sure you will have your fond memories. Keep your spirits up my Friend, I will be thinking of you...Jerry Burney

Jerry, My Airborne Comrade in Arms

Thanks you so much for your understanding and kind words.

I can only counsel you to let the grief take it's course. The pain you will feel is the visceral, deep in your core, pain that you last felt many years ago in SEA, when a bud got waxed.

I believe it is good to go through the grieving process with openness. I had my tears and I felt as tho my heart was being ripped out. Afterwards, after the viewing, after the friends and the visitation, after the wonderful funeral, after the coffin was closed forever, when all were gone from the gravesite, I gave a little "shave and a haircut, two bits" knock on the coffin, as I had done on her front door for many years , and said, "Bye, Mom. See ya' down the road."

And this chapter ends.

Tom A.