A Christian author and blogger with terminal cancer who tried to convince Brittany Maynard to reconsider her November decision to die through doctor-assisted suicide is facing her own death.

Maynard made headlines as the 29-year-old who chose to die on Nov. 1 by taking a legal lethal prescription as she faced an aggressive cancerous brain tumor.

Kara Tippetts, a Colorado Springs wife of a pastor and 38-year-old mother of four who was diagnosed two years ago with stage four breast cancer, has become the poster face of an opposite view. Her book publicist confirmed on Thursday that her family believes she is close to death.

Tippetts’s open letter to Maynard on Ann Voskamp’s popular blog went viral in many Christian circles. “Dear heart, we simply disagree,” Tippetts wrote. “Suffering is not the absence of goodness, it is not the absence of beauty, but perhaps it can be the place where true beauty can be known. In your choosing your own death, you are robbing those that love you with the such tenderness, the opportunity of meeting you in your last moments and extending you love in your last breaths.”

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