Losing the will to live

Two days ago my friend told me that her uncle had passed on. I asked whether it was the uncle on the wheelchair. She nodded.

He was an invalid for more than 30 years. Being on a wheelchair, he needed help wherever he went. According to my friend, he was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago and the doctor had to feed him through a tube. Reluctant to survive on tube, he pulled it out even knowing that that would cost him his life. I guessed, he must have thought, "What's the use of living on when I'm on a tube?" The burden on the family must have been unbearable. 

He had two sons, one adopted and another son from his own wife. However, it was believed that the son was not his but from his wife's affair. Nevertheless, he treated the children like his own. Knowing that he was not a 'man' himself, he allowed his wife to have an affair and what's more, he had to raise a son who was from another man. 

This man must had had gone through much pain and hurt to accept all these and losing the will to live was nothing than snuffing out a flickering fire. That's the end...

If only he knows that God loves him...