You couldn't have said that better!! My mother died two weeks after my 20th birthday of Lung Cancer and it was a blessing for her too. Death is not a punishment or a lack of response to prayer, it is a reward (at least from a Christian perspective), and I know she is with Jesus and I will spend eternity with her and my father who died on Fathers Day 6 years ago. Aunt Lois isn't afraid to die, but the thought of all the treatments etc is.... well.... depressing. Not that it can't be done, but ugh... She will fight the fight if it comes to that. Thank you so much for the encouraging words!