Posted on 11/02/2014 6:01:40 PM PST by CorporateStepsister
A 29-year-old terminal cancer sufferer who had previously spoken of her right to die has ended her own life surrounded by her family.
According to friends and family of Brittany Maynard, she passed away in her Portland, Oregon, home after her condition worsened and the tumor took over.
However she was able to choose to die before she lost her ability to function.
People.com said she wrote on Facebook : 'Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love.
'Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me … but would have taken so much more.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If I sit on a jury...I can discern the law and render a verdict. What this person did was legal in the state...at that time it becomes between her and God.
Yours was the best comment. Yes, may God have mercy on her soul, amen.
There is no record of that One ever granting a “right to die” as the world is defining it—and the opposite is in fact commanded in places like Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17. Certainly the prophet Elisha never thought of committing suicide (self-murder) when he suffered from his fatal illness, nor did Job even think of demanding a “right to die” when he was suffering from boils all over his skin. Elijah wanted to die when he lost heart after Jezebel killed the other prophets of God, but he asked for his life to be taken from him rather than the “right” to do it himself.
That doesn’t mean looking the other way and just letting the sins occur. Apathy is a sin too.
That’s the Roe versus Wade argument. The One who made your body, never mind the planet it moves about on, has ownership and jurisdiction of it. None of us made ourselves.
From what I understand she had a Brain Tumor.People don’t think right with them.God rest her soul and prayers for her family.
It is entirely possible that she was doing reasonably well yesterday (her initial planned day of departure), but was on the brink of agony today.
My mother died of ovarian cancer. She was comfortable at home, but when the end came... as she knew it would... the decline was quick and extremely painful. She lasted a day in the hospital with a button she could push for morphine on demand.
She faced her fate with courage, grace, and faith. I'm glad the end came relatively quickly when it was time. I'm glad she didn't have to suffer months of needless pain and helplessness.
I'll not judge this woman.
It really has nothing to do with apathy.
Do you really think you can stop “letting” sins occur?
You obviously have far more power than I.
If you are saying that other people cannot have an opinion on the promotion of assisted suicide, you are wrong.
What creeps me out is how she encouraged her family to gather around her and make her the center of some macabre show. As if this were some kind of performance art with her as the artist.
No, it was just as we all would hope for when we shuffle off this mortal coil, to be surrounded by this we love.
I understand the difference.
I never said or mentioned anything about God coming to earth to save animals. Not at all. Animals do not require saving, as they are not sinners.
I also never said anywhere that the person themselves should take their own life.
And I do agree about the taking care of ill folks and such. But I believe there comes a point that there is nothing you can do to take care of someone that helps them anymore. At some poit there is only one kind of help someone may ask for.
Certainly not everyone does. But I do know that as people’s pain increases as death approaches, the amount of morphine they are given to ward off the pain, also can kill them too. It’s not like that hasn’t happened. Accidentally or not.
If you read my responses I don’t think she was right to have done this. Not in the condition she was in. And not by her own hand. If you read my response without your filters on, you can see that I appreciate the ability of people to take care of those dying. My mom did for her mom, and if you read how I took care of my beloved pet (yes not person) I was not going to end his life prematurely either. If you want to get biblical with me, I say Proverbs - you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat their animals.
I am not going to get into a word study discussion about the variety of words translated as “soul” either.
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I actually didn’t know that we were talking about the “promotion of assisted suicide”. I thought we were talking about the act itself.
I only entered into the discussion because I happened to agree with a poster’s point that people these days share every little detail of their lives on the internet. So she may have been following the pattern of what is the norm in today’s world.
I am not saying other people cannot have an opinion at all. We all opinions...you, me...all of us.
I actually like seeing other people’s opinions.
Exactly!
She was making such a public show and issue of it, along with a cover on PEOPLE Magazine; it’s how she tried to make her impending suicide hip and socially acceptable.
Precisely; more valuable dead than alive. Once the rich start getting sick, there will be relations who will end up getting a vast inheritance once the rich person in question is ill or just getting on in years.
She didn’t want to just die.
She actively promoted death, suicide, to other states and other people.
She could have been anonymous, but chose to market her choice very aggressively. That is what I have a problem with.
Right-to-die becomes duty-to-die real quickly.
See, I am totally against anyone other than the person ever even breaching this issue. None of their business trying to push it one way or the other.
Personally here’s how i feel about it.
If I’m dying anyway, and I am fighting an enemy, if I need to explode myself to halt them or give others time to regroup, I’d do that. Would I be condemned for suicide?
If I’m dying and hoardes of enemies are coming to torture and kill me anyway, I will end it before they can violate and kill me.
If I’m in the wilderness and dying and we’re looking at freezing to death pinned under stuff we can’t move at the bottom of a crevase and wolves are moving in, I may rather opt to die instead of going through being ripped apart and dying.
If I have a death that isn’t painful, but I just get weaker without pain, I’d never even consider anything other than letting my life run its course. I’d find joy in it somehow, people, food, drink, sunshine, etc.
Next stop, making involuntary euthanasia socially acceptable.
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