I think you should seriously discuss with your wife the realization that her mother was told that she would never get old or die. What went wrong? Very likely, her mother was much younger even than those who qualified to be the "Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Again, what went wrong? Did Jehovah deliberately mislead all of those people, including her mother? If what the Watchtower says about this issue is flat ass wrong?, then WHAT ELSE is wrong? Where is the evidence of Jehovah's Spirit?
The death of her Mother should be making her QUESTION the Organization. NOT return to it. It exposes another of their False Prophecies.
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