I agree. And most of all because she was so public about it she encouraged others to do as she chose to do.
did she?
are you sure it was her choice, on Thursday she said she changed her mind, maybe someone else hit the switch instead
What “right to die”? There is no such right in the Bill of Rights.
Guess the late Miss Maynard didn’t postpone her suicide after all.
The Daily Wail is getting sicker and sicker the further left it slides.
Spread good “energy”?
Sigh
May God mave mercy on your soul.
May God have mercy on her soul.
I do too and I wish she had had the courage to hang on.
She said she owned her life but Jesus redeemed her and her life belonged to him.
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.
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
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.
I guess she said “my will not thine be done”.
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.
But I don't understand the need to become some kind of cheerleader.
This is a decision which should involve her and her family, not doctors, politicians, or even the law, for that matter.
Used to care for a lot of hospice patients.
This is so uncalled for.
“Spread the good energy around?” I mean no disrespect for the dead, but what utterly meaningless last words!
If I ever felt the need, no one would know until afterwards.
If someone feels the need to die, why talk about it in the first place.
The culture of death is an evil mindset that preys especially on those who believe there is no other alternative to relief from pain and suffering. Also, that there is no consequences in choosing to commit suicide, and that life ends when the flesh dies.
My prayers and condolences go out to the entire Maynard family. May they come to know that there is a hope and life greater than this on earth through Jesus Christ.
Let’s all kick back and reconsider her decision some 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 years in the future. That would be both respectful and wise.
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.