Posted on 11/02/2014 8:44:33 PM PST by Morgana
Genius joke!
Laughing and groaning at the same time. With a pledge to remember that one and re-tell it.
I read the 15 posts before your's. 'Rest in peace'; 'God bless her'; ''Prayers for her family' .... Where are these "many comments" to which you refer?
Saw the part where she did it with barbiturates and I couldn’t help it.
Told that joke at a party in Hollywood this weekend and two people had me text it, they couldn’t stop laughing.
Prayers for Brittany’s family.
I have posted before here on FR my families experience w/a Glioblastoma Muliforme. So with my history and horrific knowledge of what occurs w/a Glioblastoma that I UNDERSTAND her decision and her families support of it.
Glios “grow” volumetrically and quickly. The “blastoma” is the insidious path between healthy brain tissue that the tumor takes. Today the pt may speak a word or two tomorrow, speech is gone.
My mom had seizures that broke her teeth, and at one point bit thru her tongue (her facial spasms actually displaced her bite guard). At the end moms seizures were so violent (Dilantin and other anti seizure meds stopped working) that the hospital bed (locked wheels) would “jump.” And she was only about 4’8” and 100 lbs BEFORE she took ill.
If there is another version of hell on earth, I’d like it explained to me. Her illness lasted six months and one day (the extra day because we know one of her neurologists said “she won’t live 6 months”) from the day I found her on the kitchen floor (she had a grand mal seizure). She had never complained of headaches, or dizziness (but she had bruises and scraps that were discovered AFTER she was admitted to the hospital so she must have had seizures when she was alone). In moms case the parts of her brain affected caused hundred of seizures (that both surgery and meds only slowed never stopped). She was 55 when she died.
So I truly understand why Brittany did what she did.
LOL!
Poo Bear...
Prayers for God’s mercy upon the tortured soul of this poor woman.
We can’t know the sufferings of someone else. My wife suffers migraines. I beg the Lord give me her pain when I see what migraines do to her.
Don’t judge, don’t judge. Just pray. God is our secret Judge.
She is dead. The words are like great rocks falling into the sea.
Wow. I have no good answer for that...
Your words are both kind and profound. Thank you.
You are so correct...We should not judge...only the Lord does that.
In another article, it was reported that she decided to go ahead with it after suffering several seizures in the last two days...one of which left her paralyzed for some time.
My Dad died of bile duct cancer. Towards the end, he was not fully conscious but was thrashing around in pain in his bed. I asked several times for them to up his pain meds (he was in hospice in a hospital). They refused.
After a couple of hours of watching that, I physically backed the head nurse into a corner in the hallway, where she told me they would not increase the meds because it might kill him. I “explained” to her in rather strongly-worded terms what would happen if the situation wasn’t corrected in the following ten minutes.
They finally complied; he died about an hour later, spending at least that last 60 minutes resting comfortably. Do I think that the extra meds hastened his death? Absolutely. I hope that someone would do the same for me should I be in that situation.
You did the right thing.
I watched a friend passing and the nurse gave her morphine to ease the pain.
God took her home two hours later.
The nurse was so kind and did the right thing as well.
That... that is a very silly thing you just said.
Those who are being so judgmental of Ms. Maynard have, I believe, not encountered (perspective wise) the abject, cruel end time of cancer.
My mom was in a vegative state, but parts of her brain that controlled breathing were unaffected. The Drs believed she was not in pain, yet the cancers growth caused multiple grand mal seizures. It was hell. For all. She was gone. But her body was existing.
This is just too difficult now for me to revisit. I just want to say a prayer for Ms Maynard’s eternal rest.
I think you prejudged the comments and addressed what you expected people to write rather than what they did actually write.
What? That she didn't get to experience a terminal illness all the way to the end?
Face it! She hacked cancer!
To the extent possible, anyway, given current current medicine.
Beautiful. Google locates the original:
Leon Trotsky, on the death of Vladimir Lenin:
"Lenin is dead. The words are like great rocks falling into the sea."
Did you know the source of your quote?
Much of the time the long drawn out death is due to a medical system that will keep on treating and running up the tab when they know the chances of a good outcome are so slim.
Cancer is particularly difficult. Someone diagnosed with late stage cancer decides that that 20% chance of survival is worth it. But much of the time that just curses them to a longer and more painful death. Then they want the protections of human life lessened for everyone else to give themselves relief if it doesn’t go as they expect.
Death is a fact of life. Suffering is tragic. Some relief is acceptable and some is not. Hers was not, imo. Once you say that line is subjective you open yourself up to all sorts of trouble.
I join you in prayer...and fully understand the first sentence. Stupid cancer.
Who knows.
Do not judge.
Only the Lord knows.
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