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Woman who fought for right to die has change of heart

Dunya News

Lee said she made the decision to make peace with my God.

A terminally ill woman who battled her deeply religious parents in court over her right to die has had a change of heart.Grace SungEun Lee, 28, who is battling brain cancer, signed a health care proxy Saturday designating her father, Rev. Manho Lee, as her primary health care decision-maker, Lees court-appointed attorney, David Smith said.The reversal comes one day after the New York Court of Appeals ruled Lees parents cannot override her wishes. The former financial manager is paralyzed and hooked up to a feeding tube and ventilator at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.Rev. Manho Lee, who is a pastor in Flushing, N.Y., said he was concerned his daughter would go to hell if she allowed doctors to remove life support. When someone sets a date and time to die, that is suicide. And suicide is a sin, Lee said Friday at a news conference. The family has long campaigned to keep the young woman on life support.