Kara Tippetts, a 38-year-old Colorado Springs woman who advocated against physician-assisted suicide, died of breast cancer on Sunday, a post on Tippetts’ blog “Mundane Faithfulness” announced.

Tippetts published a book, “The Hardest Peace,” a memoir to life with a terminal diagnosis, days before Brittany Maynard made headlines when she announced that she had moved to Oregon to take advantage of the state’s law that allows physician-assisted suicide.

Tippetts and Maynard, who died in November, may have faced the same odds, but their perspectives could not have been more different. Tippetts, a Christian author and wife of a Colorado Springs pastor, wrote a letter to Maynard to try to persuade her to reconsider her decision to end her life after Maynard learned that she had the deadliest form of brain cancer.

To Tippetts’ surprise, the letter went viral after she posted it on the website of best-selling author Ann Voskamp (“One Thousand Gifts”). It also brought Tippetts into the national limelight, and sent her book skyrocketing to the No. 14 spot on Amazon’s overall best-seller list. The attention was unexpected for Tippetts, she told The Gazette in October.

“I knew I wanted (Maynard) to be able to hear my letter and feel my love, but I never expected to be in this position. I never expected to be this voice, but it’s an important conversation so I’m entering it,” Tippetts said.

Tippetts, a mother of four, grew up in Noblesville, Ind. She and her husband, Jason Tippetts, met at Eagle Lake Camp west of Colorado Springs. The couple married in 1998 and moved to Rockrimmon in 2012, where they founded the Westside Church.

In a video on Voskamp’s website, Tippetts recalled that her arrival in Colorado Springs was punctuated by a series of small and large disasters. One night she fell in her home and broke her nose, leaving her husband to find her in a pool of blood. Not long after that her family was forced to evacuate their home as the Waldo Canyon fire erupted into Colorado Springs.

Then, one night in the shower while preparing to go out on a date with her husband, Tippetts found a lump in her breast. She knew immediately that she had cancer, she said in the video.

On her blog, she began documenting her journey through hospitals, chemotherapies, a bilateral mastectomy and a radical hysterectomy. While her blog reflected on the meaning of life and her perspectives on death, she said in the video that “the hardest part of my story is my four young children.”

“I will never stop wanting to be their mom for the rest of my days,” she said. She lived to cherish small moments with her children, she added. “And in those small moments, I get to capture the hearts of children and prepare them for what’s coming. That one day their mom might not be there.”

In December, Tippetts wrote on the blog that she had lost track of how much time she had spent in hospitals. On March 2, she wrote that her doctor suggested that she go into hospice care, a request that first seemed like a “huge blow,” Tippetts wrote.

“It felt like quitting. I felt like my body had failed and I was being pulled from the team and benched,” she said.

But hospice turned out to be a blessing for Tippetts. She was able to focus on “my comfort. Comfort to my last moment.” Finally, Tippetts was free of tests and scans, and let her cancer have “a heyday in my bone system.”

On March 10, Tippetts documented the arrival of a hospital bed to her and her husband’s bedroom.

“I think Jason may sleep better without me up and down throughout the evening,” she said.

But with the bed also came the knowledge that her days were literally numbered.

“The nurse delivered the hard news today,” Tippetts said. “She said how many days she feels I’ll remain, and I’m struggling to believe her.”

The post, 12 days before her death, was Tippetts’ last on the blog. While a friend announced Tippetts’ death in a post on March 22, Jason Tippetts wrote about his wife’s final days at home on March 13, watching her trying to sleep and grapple with pain.

“As I write I am watching Kara wrestle to sleep,” he wrote. “But sometimes her sleep is the quietest and most peaceful event of her day.”