Hard Deaths

Ministers are often called upon when a person is dying. I was just watching a video of a hospice nurse, speaking of "hard deaths". People say that death is beautiful, she said, but that is not always true. In my own experience, there may be a hard death because a person is suffering to death, or there may be a hard death because a person is terrified of dying. It is not always as one would expect, either. The reprobate may die in peace, while the saint may die in a complete panic. I am trying to think, but ... maybe a third, maybe half of deaths are "hard deaths".