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Terminal cancer patient, Brittany Maynard, 29, exercises her right-to-die
Daily Mail ^
| November 2, 2014
| Wills Robinson
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 ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: brittany; brittanymaynard; cancer; christ; deathwithdignity; facebook; illness; life; maynard; oregon; portland; rightodie; suicide; terminalillness
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To: GeronL
Well, okay, that was wrong of me, but she made a huge mistake no matter how I look at it.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:17:15 PM PST
by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: CorporateStepsister
Like all leftist euphemisms, a patient’s “right to die” is another sinister lie disguised in false nobility. Where it will inevitably lead is to the state’s right to kill.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:18:37 PM PST
by
WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
(The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Look VERY closely in those eyes and you’ll see sinister.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:19:30 PM PST
by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: CorporateStepsister
Which eyes am I looking into?
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:20:07 PM PST
by
WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
(The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
To: CorporateStepsister
I thought she’d changed her mind a couple of days ago.
She must have had a sudden serious setback. Having watched my brother die from this disease, I can’t condemn her.
RIP
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:20:24 PM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: GeronL
she wasnt repentant That's really the key. I mean, you could murder someone on a Monday, and by Wednesday, you could conceivably truly understand the sin you committed. You could repent. You could change your life. God forgives those who truly repent.
Kill yourself on a Monday? You don't get a chance to repent. It's over. God judges based on what you did and what you didn't do. And one thing you didn't do was repent. Not good for your soul.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:20:32 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
To: CorporateStepsister
Welcome to the Sensationalized Death Movement. It's mostly derived from the legal system, insurers, media, and the decline in the value of life and abandonment national morality. No, cancer isn't a painless death in any form. Neither was our Saviors death painless.
Sad to say from this will come encouraging assisted suicide for others as well even ones unable to defend themselves because someone else is inconvenienced or has other motives and speaks for them.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:20:58 PM PST
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: CorporateStepsister
It is a horrible precedent, but she’s not the first, and won’t be the last. She’s just been the most vocal at this point. I pray for the salvation of her soul.
To: CorporateStepsister
Committing suicide for the greater good will be encouraged more and more in the future.
This is morbid.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:22:09 PM PST
by
right way right
(America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
To: nuconvert
None of us can condemn her. Only God can do that.
To: GeronL
are you sure it was her choice, on Thursday she said she changed her mind, maybe someone else hit the switch instead
That's what I'm wondering too.
Then again, the announcement Thursday could have been an attempt to keep the press at bay for the sake of her family. I'm guessing if she'd hadn't made that announcement there would have been satellite-truck gridlock in her neighborhood, turning it into a much larger circus than it already was.
To: right way right
If you ain’t free to leave on your own terms, you ain’t free.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:23:41 PM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: tanknetter
Then again, the announcement Thursday could have been an attempt to keep the press at bay for the sake of her familyI might have bought that if it wasn't all over the media right now
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:25:26 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: cva66snipe
I really do wonder if she has some kind of Munchhausen Syndrome and for some reason, found it validating to have people cheer her on while she made a martyr of herself. She’s setting herself up as an example and making it seem hip. She had her ‘fun’ going to various places on her bucket list and after a ‘fun trip’ she’s decided to end up messing up her entire salvation. I mean, killing yourself after going on a series of fun trips?
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:26:10 PM PST
by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: CorporateStepsister
I guess she said “my will not thine be done”.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:27:02 PM PST
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: CorporateStepsister
Euthanasia is a nicer name for assisted suicide.
My father suffered with cancer for almost 3 years before he passed away almost a year ago. I know there were a lot of times when he wanted to give up. He didn’t because it wasn’t his time yet.
I am proud of my father for putting his trust in the Lord’s hands. I am so thankful for the time we did have together. My father passed with dignity.
It’s a sad story any way you look at it.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:27:18 PM PST
by
boycott
To: right way right
Oh yes; I am sure there are a lot of idealists who will gladly march lockstep to various facilities where helpless elderly wait in fear.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:27:30 PM PST
by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: CynicalBear
That alone should tell you where she’s gone for her eternal rest.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:28:07 PM PST
by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: DonaldC
I agree with you. Just keep the government out.
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:28:13 PM PST
by
jwalsh07
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
11/02/2014 6:28:58 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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