Sunday, October 7, 2012

Grace SungEun Lee: Terminally Ill Woman Who Fought for Right to Die Has Change of Heart

PHOTO: Grace SungEun Lee became ill with brain cancer last year and is being kept alive by breathing and feeding tubes at North Shore University Hospital's palliative care center.
Grace SungEun Lee became ill with brain cancer last year and is being kept alive by breathing and feeding tubes at North Shore University Hospital's palliative care center. (Facebook)

She appears to mouth, "Yes."

"When do you want to leave to a nursing home?" the man asks.

"Now," Lee appears to reply.

North Shore University Hospital is honoring Lee's request to not comment on her medical condition.

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 healthcare proxy today designating her father, Rev. Manho Lee, as her primary health care decision maker, Lee's court appointed attorney, David Smith, told ABC station WABC-TV in New York.

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