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 ...
The right to die is not a constitutional right. It is a human right.
Amen.
i had to put down my best little’guy this september after nursing him about nine months. he had good quality life i’d say for everything except part of the few days.
i’always needed to have a number of things to watch for to know when i knew it was time. had a great appetite all the way through ups and downs, excited to get meals, treats. happy to be with me, got enjoyment from being held and being pet, spending time with me. was able to be pain free through pain meds, and various treatments to help his conditions, and responded well to the meds/treatments. basically across all this he had a will to live, a desire to stay. good outweighed bad.
he was tired the last couple days. appetite went first. later in the day he didn’t want to drink. had to sub-q him to make sure the vet would be able to insert a shunt in a vein easily and not cause discomfort. he still enjoyed being held and pet, which i did the entire night with him.
hardest thing to do.
bottom line is i think if people are old and/or clearly terminally injured/ ill, aren’t taking in food and water anymore on their own, can’t get clear of pain, and can’t find any comfort from’others, they’re dying and shutting down. in obvious cases where it’s’just a matter of time, days, and the person can still make a clear affirmation or rejection, i can see a doctor fulfilling the wishes of the dying patient. i’d make sure severaltimes during that last day they still want it though.
if i was in great pain and it’d be that way for weeks or days without real relief before dying, that it truly was not just a short “down” period i wouild bounce back from for awhile, if i felt i knew i was going home, a morphine overdose may not be the worst thing in the world. but the criteria i would go by is high, and the person would have to be exhibiting signs of dying - disconnecting from food and water, disconnecting from people, - the kinds of things we’ve seen happen in people going through the dying process.
this woman, by my standards, was not at that point yet. she was suffering from the temrinal illness, but she had not entered into the dying process yet.
for my pet, i erred on the side of giving him the longest amount of qualiy lifepossible. i knew that he’d have periods of ups and downs, but the downs didn’t last for more than a day or two. when it lasts longer and then interest in food and water go, and don’t come back, you know.
i’d set the same high criteria for people. they would geninely have to be at the very last stages of life, in the dying process, essentially a couplemdays away from deth anyways. aftr you’ve seen the dying process and talk with people who see it all the time,’like in hospices where people go and expect to not come home from, people there just know how long people have by what they’re doing, and stopped doing, and the ‘order they occur, and they can gauge pretty closelyhow much time someone dying has left.
i’d’onlyconsider it if the person’s obviously past the point of no return. and make damn certain they are and still want this to happen. and if not, you don’t do it. it isn’t imperative to any of the rest of us they do it, it’s being doneonly at their dying request.
You got that right. I am disgusted by those who would condemn her and consign her soul to hell.
Ok. We shouldn’t celebrate death.
But the fact that lots of people call their own shots through the dying process is one of the facts of life.
When I see folks arguing for this “right” I shake my head. They are arguing for something that exists already. It just not blasted from the hilltop.
People who are dying are generally respected. The folks wanting to facilitate it in public are attention hounds.
I respect every individual’s decision. I don’t advocate suicide, but if someone wants to pull their own plug, that’s fine with me. It doesn’t need to be on Facebook.
Very disturbing.
exactly. if they haven’t given up this isn’t for them.
further i’d say they’d’clearly’have to be in the dying process for this to even be considered. this particular gal wasn’t there yet, she was termially’ill, but ot in the final, dying process - ie their time.
A week ago, or so, she named Nov 1 as the date. Yesterday (the 1st) she said she was delaying it because she felt better. Things must have changed today and she pulled the trigger, so to speak.
yes, i am not in favor of people being cheerleaders for this. it’s extremely difficult. i’m not pro-death, i frigging hate death, but in the case of my pets, they were old and sick and dying and they had no chance of recovering andbeing out of pain, so death is a release for them, and i know they go back to God, their creator. hurt like hell to do this but they’d have just suffered more and i couldn’t do anything anymore to help them. didn’t want tovsee them go but one day i get them back. if our human loved ones are in the same boat, and they want this, and are actually in the process of dying, shutting down, and it’s a matter of days to the same end, if it’s a very high criteria process, i would understand people wanting this option.
again, i say it appears this woman was not in the dying process, i would not have advocated them doing this to her as she was. she was dealing with the illness, not in the dying process. i would reserve this only for people who ar actually dying.
“...but worse to try to take others along with you on your ‘magic carpet ride’ and to end up trying to push other states...”
Brittany Maynard is not responsible for the choices others may decide if they choose to commit self-murder.
i agree.
Lord have mercy.
I had thought that she had reconsidered. This chills me to the bone.
I think you made an overlooked point.
Social media seems to make these folks share every detail. I don’t get it...but I’m an older, very private person.
Brain cancer can go one of two ways. In one case the cancer affects the part of the brain that controls pain. People die as a vegetable...but pain free. The second...not so much. The pain is uncontrollable.
Whatever this young lady did was between her and God.
I won’t judge her. As of this evening...no one has put me in charge.
Nope. Unless you mean “human right” as leftists define it?
Slippery slope. Extend that to other evils and then what?
The existence of evil does not demand our legitimization of it.
these people who think they are so "modern" in their thinking are merely IMO selfish....hey world...look what I'm doing...ain't I great.....
people can die with dignity with plenty of prescribed pain killers to let them just slip away....you don't need a media onslaught and a 15" show to die...
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