Gave my Stepdad a copy of American Gods to read while in Isolation at the Hospital.
Blood Cancer is a Motherfucker to get, it's a weird thing to watch someone slowly die, my "Religious" views will never change, it took me decades of tripping, reading "Religious" texts etc to understand at best 1% of The Real Picture of what is going on & I have my own view which is a mixture of Japanese Zen (Ikkyu is my #1) Chinese Classical Tao & the Hindu Aghor / Advaita Vedฤnta / Nath-Aghor but it's making me really question things which are at the very core of why we are here & what is the point of it all?
Sorry to hear that is happening. It sounds like an awful way to go.
Personally I don't believe in any grand reasons or designs, purposes, or even any particular point of existing, other than what individuals make of it for themselves. Although I understand and respect that it can comfort people to have some kind of religious beliefs, especially at times likes this.
Funnily enough, some of those later Johnny Cash recordings hit me right in the feels, and his version of "One" hit me particularly hard the other day.
This is the climax of the song, with these lyrics: and his voice, and the guitar, and of course they dont carry the same power without having first built up to that point.
[Final Chorus]
One love, one blood
One life, you've got to do what you should
One life with each other
Sisters, brothers
One life, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
One
One
I don't think any one could put it any better. I don't think there is anything else, or anything more grand, or more complicated. Maybe that says all that needs to be said. Even if it was Bono that originally wrote those lyrics

(they were once a decent band, a long time ago, back in the day.)