Posted on 05/02/2018 7:10:00 AM PDT by mkleesma
Through nearly 73 years of marriage, George and Shirley Brickenden did nearly everything together.
On March 27, they died together at their Toronto retirement home, holding hands, surrounded by family.
George, 95, and Shirley, 94, became one of the very few couples in Canada to have chosen — and to have been allowed — to die together with medical assistance. And they're the first such couple to speak publicly about it.
The Brickendens describe themselves as a mostly private family, but George, Shirley and their family felt it was important to open the conversation about doctor-assisted death, speaking with the Globe and Mail about the process.
Three of the Brickendens' four children — Angela, 54, Saxe, 60 and Pamela, 71 — were in the room as their parents said their final goodbyes.
They sat down with The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti a few weeks later.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
but not for them.
Not an act of bravery, imo
Adds slippery to the slope
Fear of losing control, but Colossians 1:24 gives us the key to the mystery of suffering, up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake”. We do our most powerful work of all at the end of our lives, offering our sufferings to Christ Who, true, doesn’t need them, but like a Dad letting his little son give unnecessary help, His plan is to include us in the glory of His cross.
Lovers’ leap has been institutionalized.
Do they offer a package discount?
We hear about botched lethal injections in death penalty sentences.
Why don’t we hear about any botched lethal injections for suicide victims?
This is simply evidence of the lack of God and belief in God by an entire country. This behavior is a characteristic of the Culture of Death. Abortion on one end and euthanasia on the other.
The government of Canada has replaced God in their lives. What happened to natural death?
My mother just died at 92 and she fought for every minute of life, persevered over doctors and nurses who offered her an easy exit for the past 2.5 years, gave and received many moments of joy in her final years months and days.
Her epitaph:
“I have fought the good fight
I have finished the race
I have kept the Faith”
2 Timothy 4:7
I find getting old “interesting”....and have a few extended relatives in their nineties...including cranky MIL...this assisted dying seems like a cop-out, unless you are literally on death’s bed and under Hospice Care...like a good friend of mine. (Brain cancer).
Mens hearts failing for fear....certain political and ethnic groups might be very happy to see the self destruction of others...despairing unto death without hope is a tough thing..
cop- out from what? Maybe they are done with life.
The thing is this couple could have taken their own lives at any time. They did not need the aid of the State to do this. The part of the article I read where the man could not figure out how they could take own lives and was confused as to how to do it was bunk.
With their collective health problems I have no doubt they had enough pills between them to do the job. It was propaganda by the State to make this into a Love Story. Sorry I don’t buy it.
I understand their thinking but they had options.
And the slope gets even more slippery.
dying is an important learning process for young and old, and now we can't even have natural death, with all its bumps and bruises...
if one wants to die, then stop eating and drinking...stop taking your meds....
why do we tax payers have to pay for your suicide..DO IT YOURSELF....
There is a difference between assisted dying ( comfort care) and deliberate euthanasia
If you have a loved one go throught it, you understand
It takes such bravery and grace, all around
Beautiful testimony!
My mother will be 100 in August and just entered a nursing home after 10 years in assisted living. She just told the nurses that she will no longer take any of her medications and there are plenty. The doctor says they can’t force her to take them as she’s pretty sound of mind. To be honest she’s been ready to go for a long time and one morning she probably won’t wake up.
That their passing was in essence sanctioned by a church giving them last rites is troubling. If one believes that God is the giver of life and human life is a unique and precious gift, how can suicide in any form be acceptable to God? Look at Barbara Bush who met death with dignity.
My mother was a fighter, not a quitter
That was her life lesson to everyone she touched
This blog post was written about my mother
https://www.presbyterianmission.org/today/2016/02/04/small-matters-2/
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