You gotta worry when you read that in a LATimes oped. Sure enough, the pope was a “‘control freak,’” pathetically clinging to life when he had no hope, Jack Miles tells readers. While I understand the pain of watching a loved one suffer, as he clearly is, Miles misses, I think, some of the specifics of lessons from PJPII’s last days. He didn’t cling to earthly life. He was living a theology of suffering and he let go when it was time, leaving us all with a humble gift of his example.