An impending death

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I will generously assume you ONLY mean "death is not inevitable IN this case AT this precise time."

Ah, yes, the advances in medicine.

The night my mother in law died rather suddenly happened to be the night of the day of her appointment with her doctor, who told her bluntly to forget anything like Hospicecare, she was fine and scheduled to live for years.

Physicians do not yet have supernatural powers nor much insight [being these days for the most part technicians rather than scientists or healers].

Actually, I think I need to go back to refusing to respond to you - I am talking to the wind and the tide is wetting my sandals.

There are at least the decision on a mental attitude and the decision on whether and how to speak.

And for those who HAVE a sense of a divine entity, religuion - or at least the stancde of the divine entity - is never irrelevant.

As to whether religion is relevant or not:

It depends on perspective. I've always found that the answers are always in faith in the final analysis. However, people make decisions all the time that are NOT based on their religion or religious teachings, and whether the answers are found by all people in all situations is relative to the person seeking those answers. In the context of what I believe, the path set before us from the cradle to the grave is not what is meant for all people. Yes, I do believe in absolute morality and so forth. But that doesn't mean all choices in life really are between good/evil or right/wrong. It may be good for me to fight on, damn the torpedoes, and blaze in life's final moments until there's nothing left; but perhaps what is good for me is not best for someone else. In that sense, I can make peace with whatever happens regardless of my personal feelings on the matter.

Regardless of religion or lack thereof, how we--anyone--approaches issues such as these varies from person to person.

Quite.

And from case to case.