Posted on 11/02/2014 10:07:46 PM PST by Bettyprob
Give it a rest with the little girl bull crap. She was an adult and has been for over a decade.
Was she young, yes.
However, we send men and a fair amount of young women much younger off to foreign lands all the time to die in the most excruciating way. Many others come back terribly wounded and deformed. Yet, a vast majority of them find a way to muscle through.
I would prefer not to waste tears on a person who decides to not only kill themselves, forgoing any hope or any struggle for life. Particularly when they chose to make their death a spectacle.
I watched a documentary on the “Falling Man” and how they tried to ID him. Some Catholic family who lost their father/son or whatever said that it couldn’t have been him or that would mean he’s in Hell. They said that no good Catholic would have jumped out, even with the flames.
To me she’s a little girl. And you,, are interesting. Waving the flag doesn’t make it ok to be cold towards this little girl. If I had showed up with her in tow at thanksgiving, someone would quickly say “look at that old guy with her, she’s just a little girl”.
And the fact that she didn’t take anyone else out with her. That’s a big difference imo. And I will not judge her, though I think she made the wrong decision, it’s hard to say as I’m not in her shoes.
There is nothing interesting about it.
We would not know the state of her mind, except that she fully shared it with the entire World. She chose to make a spectacle of her desire to die by her own hand. She also wanted to bring as many people into her enterprise as she could. A doctor, her family, her boy friend, her community and all of us through the authority of civil law.
She could have just as easily turned on the gas and stuck her head in the oven, but that wouldn’t have made her point. Would it?
I love FR, but I continue to be appalled at the self-righteous arrogance and lack of human compassion demonstrated by so many here.
Seems to me that those of you who judge her for her action are in greater need of personal salvation than you realize. My personal judgment of you is that the world is a worse place for your presence in it, although fortunately it is God’s judgment and not mine that matters here.
As one who cared for and watched a deeply, dearly beloved one die of brain cancer less than two years ago, all I can say is that nobody has the right to judge this woman.
Prayers for her soul, and yours.
I would have assumed that you where paying her.
Is she a little girl? I thought she was a married woman, looked to be late 20’s...
I agree with you. Her choice was much more than just relieving pain. She used it to solicit a political cause. As sympathetic as anyone may wish to be with her situation, I cannot see how they extend that sympathy to her cause. Once society makes that line subjective, we are in for all sorts of trouble.
In a fallen and evil world, where you draw the line in valuing human life is VERY important — it is more important than any one case.
We would never know the state of her mind you say. Would that be the one eaten away with cancer that was throwing her into seizures and partial paralysis the last few days? That mind?
Little girl? She was 29. To call her otherwise is rather disrespectful. Also, calling her a “little girl” doesn’t give her an excuse to kill herself, or make her less culpable in her actions.
Isn’t this a school night? Go to bed.
Honestly, I do not believe it is anyone’s business if someone else chooses to end their life early, rather than suffer a slow death from a terminal disease. It should be left up to the person with the illness, their doctor and I suppose anyone they choose to confide in (friends, family, etc.).
The callousness, to condemn someone to Hell for not letting themselves die in pain, so that they can “live” (suffer through) a whole two months more or whatever.
I have significantly more concern for Lauren Hill, Mount St. Joseph basketball player with a brain tumor. She was given only weeks to live in September after a months long battle with an inoperable brain tumor.
Lauren Hill is a life affirming inspiration. Brittany Maynard is simply a tragedy.http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2014/10/mount_st_joseph_basketball_pla.html#incart_related_stories
And just for your edification, little girl is a term of endearment, kindness and compassion. Its often used protectively. It isn’t a put down like the commissars at the womens studies building say it is.
Her age is right there in this thread's title...
Hear, hear.
Gosh, she was so selfish to not consider your feelings on this.
The social media posts, interviews and personal statements assure eliminate the idea that she didn't know what she was doing.
Her individual death has no effect on me personally. The fact that she committed suicide willingly is a tragedy, but once again has no effect on me personally or on society as a whole. Most of us are simply not that important in the World.
The fact that she made herself a poster child for the cheapening of human life through government sponsored and approved assisted suicide effects us all. It further drags down society and coarsens the cause of the value for all human life, regardless of circumstance.
It is no different than government sponsored and condoned abortion.
What?
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