Infidel deathbeds
What counts is not how you die, but how you live.
In many cases, as death approaches people remember their youth,
rather than their adult years. So, often they have a tendency to
revert to this life stage.
It is not surprising that Muslim heretics raised in the Muslim Faith begin
to call upon Allah. Christian heretics raised in the Christian faith will
accept Jesus, Mary, or the Saints. They may even sing songs from
their youth, such as "Jesus loves me this I know. For the Bible tells me so"
over and over again. Similarly with other faiths.
I don't blame them.
I would even encourage it. -- anything to make death more bearable.
Try to think as a compassionate Muslim if a Muslim is dying or in a
personal crises. Think like a compassionate Christian if a Christian is
dying or in a personal crises. Think like an Atheist if an Atheist is dying
or is in a personal crises. Etc. Put yourself in the dying person's shoes,
comfort the person, and as much as possible decrease the stress of dying.
On the deathbed, or whenever a person is in personal crises, is not the
time to make conversions or try to persuade.
The final utterances of a dying person about any belief system is trivial
compared to the utterances made during his life. Some people consider
a deathbed conversion significant. If it happens it is not significant.
You must look at the life lived, not the death experienced.
An attempt at persuading a dying person or a person in a personal crises
to convert to another belief system is not only essentially meaningless;
it is also cruel and inhumane.
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