Kara Tippetts, a Stage-Four Breast Cancer Victim, Passes Away
Kara Tippetts, 38, wife of a pastor and a mother of four who was suffering from stage-four breast cancer, died on Sunday, March 22.
In last years of her life, she accepted her sufferings in a quietly powerful way, a cultural force for another way of choosing death with dignity.
Tippetts even wrote a book, 'The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard', and she also had a blog, 'Mundane Faithfulness', that was full of praise for God and images of a woman well-loved by friends and family.
Her posts on her blog were majorly filled with Christian vision that physician-assisted dying is not an act of loving life, but rather a betrayal of love, God and faith.
In a post titled 'By Degrees - Living and dying' she wrote that her body is tired of battle and treatment is no longer helping her. But she said she has a complete faith in Jesus.
"He has still given me breath, and with it I pray I would live well and fade well. By degrees doing both, living and dying, as I have moments left to live", she wrote.
Tippetts also wrote an open letter to Maynard in last October. Maynard who was suffering from an aggressive cancerous brain tumor chose to die on November 1. She told Maynard that God never told to hasten death.
On December 31, Tippetts on her Facebook page mentioned that she has now turned to hospice care she wrote that 'in God's time doors will open to close'.
Her blog began as her chronicle of motherhood and living in kindness. The obituary that appeared the day she died says it morphed into a blog about looking for God's Grace to show up even in the hardest, messiest, ugliest places.
Jason Tippetts and their friends wrote the blog entries in the last 12 days.