It takes a lot of guts to just open up like Bill and I salute you! 
Listen brother……… I know this is redundant for you but it’s obvious you focus on your purpose here and keep your sights on eternity. Death is permanent. No one but Christ has conquered death but if we think about the people that have been deceased since the beginning of our time……… compared to the ages their lives were still but specks, flickers of existance. Our time here is brief by comparison also. Bill………. stay the course, finish the race………. a perfect and restored body awaits you for when your purpose is complete. It’s promised. In the place where every knee will bow, and every tongue confess, that He is Lord.
As for the thread, it does come back to our own complacencies that have allowed things to get to the state they’re at. Our rights to let the people rule are all but being made illegal because of poorly discerning judges that have been elected to power. It’s not illegal to try and put things back but you’re subject to being sued for it! “It’s not fair” and “Politically Correct” are 2 phrases that turn my stomach.
I’ve voiced my position quite clearly on many a post…….. so this shouldn’t shock anyone……… but we’d help each other so much more than we do if we could just kick all “the lefties” out of power. “Religion” is such a loosely used word and the majority of those who use it don’t even know the difference between it and faith. It’s become rare to know the definitions of either one enough to even discern the difference. We can point the finger at a million and one things but our own failures to stand and defend our convictions is the greatest contributor. At some level, this comes from all of us, me included.
Complacency is the death cargo of the non-achiver. Everytime we ask, “What’s the big deal” or “It’s a free country” gets voiced, there’s the voice of someone who hasn’t got the whole story or historical value necessary to understand why it should be a respected condition. And like it or not, deny it or not, this is true for every last one of us, again…….. me included.
Bill………….. you’ve got a purpose driven life and the support of many. I’ll miss you if you go before me, but only for a short while, because I will be happy for your newly acquired perfect life, the one that lasts forever……… and ever…… and ever……… and ever. No more drugs, traction, pain signals, or deterioration. This hope, is the strength of which you speak, and can be found no where else. No where.
…then its too late. 
