Reply #51: I don't know if this will help or not [View All]

my grandmother was a lot like your aunt. She was a member of her church, she visited the sick, she helped out where she could. Then she got Lou Gehrig's disease and lost the ability to talk. She still dragged herself in to that church for 2 years before she finally gave up and started the business of dying. No longer attending church, she was bereft and lonely. No one from that church visited her. NO ONE. We finally started calling around to other churches of the same flavor. Only once got some guy to talk to her on the phone (pray with her, I suppose). We called her own church, the minister had a cold, they were busy with holidays, the excuses were pathetic.
One of the guys we found in the yellow pages said he would come out... he never made it.
Her wishes were that she would have a funeral on the other side of the country, thank goodness.
In her will there was money for that church, can you believe it? We gave it to a better charity.