May he rest in peace. Prayers for his family
I’m upset that fine people like Tony die and retarded gasbags like Al Franken and chrissie matthews are still breathing.
This is how I lost my religion. - And as another great conservative and Freeper bids us goodbye, the liberal tide is rising.
Even the GOP is casting us aside.
RIP Tony. RIP
You should read the comments after the article. I left a couple myself. But the two others were terribly vicious.
My wife died of colon cancer at 45. For 8 years, her doctor told her she had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. By the time they caught it, it was a full blown level 4 cancer. Prayers for Tony’s family, and please everyone get a second opinion with something like this.
Very sad and a tough way to go.
Dittos. His interactions on FR showed him to be an unflappable gentleman. May he rest now in our father’s loving arms.
Oh my. Excuse me while, I wipe away the tears.
RIP Tony.
Wow. Really sad. I got to meet Tony at the White House when I visited Pres. Bush in August of 06. We didn’t get to talk much, but I told him how much I enjoyed his radio commentary. There just seems to be no justice when people like Jesse Jackson and Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid keep walking around, and someone like Tony Snow and the other day, also, Yankee great Bobby Murcer, die way too young.
Amen. It must have been tremendously difficult for Tony's father to see his son go through this and after losing his wife to this as well. God bless Tony and his family and friends. I will always remember the great person that he is.
For patients to rally at the end, is quite common in my experience.
Prayers up for Tony and his family.
I’ve lost many friends and family members over the last 10 years, and a significant increase in alertness and appearance, after a long decline, has been very common just days before they have died.
My recommendation is rejoice during those last lucid moments, and say what is on your heart. For this is not always an indication that you’ll have another chance.
Prayers for his family.
Well, I sure hope that was the case, if not then folks should work to see it done.
His father mentioned how he rallied on Thursday. That rally just before the end happens often.
My father died on a Monday. He had lung cancer and his voice was raspy the last few weeks. Two or three days before he died, his voice cleared up and he had so much energy and spent hours reminiscing with a cousin that had come to visit him. We were amazed at his turnaround that day.
For most of us who have lost a loved one to cancer, this is a familiar story. The Friday before I lost my father, his doctors were preparing him for a round of chemo to help stave off bone cancer. On Sunday, he took a turn for the worse and passed away on Monday morning. No one expected him to beat his cancer, but we were hopeful for a little more time.
Seems like heaven always prepares for the good ones before we are ready to see them go. Rest in peace, Tony Snow. You will be missed.
It has been hard for me to post on this thread or the others about Tony.
My older brother passed away from colon cancer in 1993 at a similar age. When he found out about it, it had advanced too far, and it was terminal. He declined chemo and radiation, wanting his last months to be without their effects.
God granted that all us could be with him when he passed from this life to the next at his home. It was hard for my parents to deal with losing their first born while in their 70s.
The only symptom he had was a constant sore throat, that his doctor misdiagnosed.
Although this dredges up long ago memories, as i am sure it does to many others here who have similar stories of their own, I want to say that Tony Snow was a fine man in every respect. His light was very bright and inspires us to be the best we can be, even in the most difficult circumstances.And his outlook toward death, a door we must all go through, showed his belief in God and in the salvation that God has provided through His Son, and he ordered his life here in the light of that truth.
We can build our house upon the sand or on The Rock—it is our choice. Tony built his spiritiual house upon the Rock.
His passing, or promotion as he would call it, inspires us as an example of how we can influence others for good in the midst of suffering.
God has His purposes, and He does nothing without His will being accomplished in every way. The clay cannot say to the Potter, do you not know what You are doing?
We can say God allows the good to die young. The truth is, people die every day at all ages, from 0 to 115.Death is very person, due to sin.
What God did, was see us in these desperate straits, and He provided a Savior in Jesus Christ. We have not been abandoned. Someday, even death will be wiped away, as will all our tears.
Tony has no tears today. His body is dead, but he is not. He is more alive at this moment then he could ever dream possible.
For that,this lump of clay says to the Potter, Thank You.
Our kids attend the same school. I met him once, in the church where the kids hold their performances. That was when he was taking a lot of grief at the WH. I told him I thought he was doing a great job and that he looked good and strong. What a loss.
Prayers for the Snow family at this sad time. Tony was such an upbeat, witty man. I will miss his charming smile.
How very sad. My sincere condolences to the family...
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.
No worse pain for any parent than having to bury their own child, no matter how old they are.