My evangelical cousin is at death's door.

[Warpy]

23. People who are in good health are terrified of death

which might be one of those things hard wired into our brains. I'd be tempted to leave them with their delusions, I've seen those delusions be a great comfort to people who are left here after someone has died. I always tried to call the chaplain sooner rather than later.

That "power of prayer" stuff is annoying as hell to those of us who don't believe a word of it, but it comforts them, allowing them the illusion of doing something when there is nothing to be done, a person is relaxing into an inevitable death.

It's only when they scream for all the technology that they've seen on TV that things get sticky, prolonging death while increasing its pain in the hope that Sky Daddy will finally bother with all those prayers and send them a miracle is nothing they can count on.

So don't be too hard on the fundies unless they refuse that DNR, then the gloves need to come off. Just steel yourself for the torrent of crap at the funeral and be glad it's not your crap.