What is the worst thing?

I have a friend who always says, "Everyone's worst thing is their worst thing."

We go through life worrying and stressing about many things. I think that most of us have experienced job stress and stress related to our children. Some have been through divorce, child custody battles, personal health problems or any number of other serious issues. When facing problems, we always tend to think that they are the worst thing.

Nevertheless, in my book, facing the end of life for someone you love trumps everything else.

We are trying to balance my mom's congestive heart failure against her kidney failure. This is basically a choice of deaths.

For a friend to complain to me that my "dealing with a dying parent" is not any worse than their job stress just boggles my mind. Everything else is either replaceable or solvable. Death and dying is not. This hurts my heart.