She lost her mom. The world makes no sense to her if it could take her mom from her.
Atheism often is anger, not disbelief.
But of course the day is coming when she and we will also leave this mortal coil; its part of the natural order of things. The difference is that we have come to know that life does not end, that there is a God that made us and loves us, and that there is eternal principle at work behind what sometimes appears to be chaos.
I wouldn’t write her off. She sounds as if she is begging someone to show her she is wrong.
Atheists somehow think that pointing out the tragedy of it all is somehow a solution. Now that they’ve adopted their atheist worldview, am I to believe that death no longer happens? Conclusion: not a solution at all. The desperately poor, the tragic accidents, the starving children....they’re all still there, and atheism has solved a thing with their nogod.
You could be right about this woman. Is the best approach just to let God work with her?
One of my recent taglines was Atheists: There is no God and I hate Him!