I am glad you are there with the family....& that the family & he have the knowledge & understanding of what is going on.....you are correct in that dying in not a horrible thing.....to me also it is just another phase of life. Everything you have described that you are going through with him.....I too experienced.....I guess the only difference was that my Mother continually kept asking me when she was going to get better. I guess in a way, I too acted as her guide.....All I could finally respond with was that her prayers were not going to be answered in the way that she wanted & that the only time she would be better was when she left this life.......she kept hanging on.....& struggling to stay alive......it was just 2 hours before she died that I told her that is was ok to die & that she would never be able to live the life she had expected here on earth.

I was not able to be with her at the exact time she died.....the time will come & it is beyond our control.....when the body finally lets go......My feeling was that I was with her when she died.....she died the moment I left her room.

Just be there for them like you are.....you are the strength the family needs to keep going also.

Debbie