Posted on 10/29/2014 11:23:23 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
"A 29-year-old terminal cancer sufferer who had previously spoken of her plan to take her life on November 1 has had a change of heart.
In a video released on Wednesday, Brittany Maynard said she hasn't decided when she'll end her life, but it remains a decision that she's determined to make before getting too ill.
‘I still feel good enough and I still have enough joy and I still laugh and smile with my family and friends enough that it doesn't seem like the right time right now,’ she said."
"‘But it will come, because I feel myself getting sicker. It's happening each week.’
Maynard has stage IV glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive form of terminal brain cancer and in April doctors gave her just six months to live.
The newlywed recently managed to tick visiting the Grand Canyon off her bucket list after previously announcing that it was one place she hoped to visit before she died."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Good for her. I’m glad she is well enough to live a little longer.
All I have to say is I’ll give her a lot of latitude due to her condition and I’m not going to throw any stones.
She’s got an extremely tough row to hoe.
Terminally ill cancer patient, Kara Tibetts, wrote an open letter to Brittany recently. The letter is a poignant testimony to the beauty, love, and courage of living-and dying-through cancer.
My prayer is that this young woman will come to recognize the sanctity of life regardless of her previous misconceptions. Ultimately, may she come to know the only one who can truly save her, Jesus Christ.
In a world filled with self-obsessed, materialistic people who value life by way of its “usefulness”, this story of Kara and the hope she provides for others is nothing short of true sacrificial love and faith.
Here’s an article about Kara Tibbett:
http://www.worldmag.com/2014/10/worldviews_collide_in_viral_letter_between_cancer_patients
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That is a possibility and I accept that thinking.
Feel very sorry for her, hoping for a miracle.
I hope she finds that miracle, but she actively promoted death and suicide and euthanasia. Now she’s changing her mind.
“She wanted her 15 minutes and now she’s pushing for 5 more.”
Yup. I totally agree.
Your refrain has been, “...she changed her mind...” Of course she changed her mind. Facing certain death should cause any person to especially when you are terminally ill. Suicide should never be casually considered regardless of the “law” or what progressive society tries to sell you.
Your focus on this terminally ill woman’s change of heart rather than extending compassion is striking and sad. So what if she was on the cover of a mag. The MSM has exploited Brittany just as much as she believed she was helping others.
I am deeply sorry for that young woman. I hope that by having a change of heart, others will realize that it’s not too late to choose Kara Tibbetts journey through death.
Maybe she shares Groucho Marx’s last words,....”Die, my dear? Why that’s the last thing I’ll do! “
Gosh, you seem awfully disappointed that she didn’t go through with her decision to kill herself. I’d hate to be in her position and I would probably be considering doing myself in as well.
I am glad she changed her mind. People, deep down, want to LIVE.
I PRAY she awakens to the truth that her soul will live after her body goes back to dust. May she find the Savior, Holy Spirit!
This is very good news! Opting for life over suicide is a beautiful thing. God and given her a chance to get right and she is taking it.
Prayers answered!
Suicide is despair.
Your body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit.
Your life is not your own.
In life, the period of greatest difficulty is also the period of greatest opportunity for individual soul growth.
I’ve worked with cancer patients who died after several months of terminal lung cancer and brain tumors while taking no pain killers the entire time.
When the soul is ready, it will let go of the body naturally.
The key is prayer, prayer, prayer and more prayer. It brings in God’s perfect Love that casts out fear. As a side benefit, the perception of pain goes away with the fear. It’s as though fear and pain are on a separate channel from the Love and you can’t tune into the two channels at the same time.
Her wanting to check out is merely her fear of experiencing the death process. It’s not that bad. I’ve been there. It’s only bad if you are not looking to God when it happens.
She may have been following the lead of Ralph Kramden, who, thinking he had only six months to live, sold his story to a magazine when he thought he had "arterial monochomia" ("a rare disease that affects mainly boxers.")
Good for her.
His sense of humor comes through in his self written obituary which was in our local newspaper and read on NPR's car talk by Click & Clack.
LEWISBURG - Louis J. Casimir Jr. bought the farm Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004, having lived more than twice as long as he had expected and probably three or four times as long as he deserved.
Although he was born into an impecunious family, in a backward and benighted part of the country at the beginning of the Great Depression, he never in his life suffered any real hardships.
Many of his childhood friends who weren't killed or maimed in various wars became petty criminals, prostitutes, and/or Republicans.
He survived three years overseas in an infantry regiment in excellent health, then university for four years on the GI bill, and never thereafter had to do an honest day's work.
He was loved by good women, had loyal friends, and all his children were healthy, handsome and bright.
For more than six decades, he smoked, drank and ate lots of animal fat, but never had a serious illness or injury.
His last wish was that everyone could be as lucky as he had been, even through his demise was probably iatrogenic.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 43 years, Judy.
He is survived by his brother Jack of Houston, Texas; and his children, Randall Kent of Brunswick, Ga., Louis John III (Trey) of Lewisburg, Thomas Bettis of Lewisburg and Edith Austin Wheat of Austin, Texas.
Lou was a daredevil: his last words were "Watch this!"
A memorial service and barbecue will be held on Labor Day at Lou's place.
Donations may be made in Lou's memory to the Union County Public Library, 205 Reitz Blvd., Lewisburg, PA 17837.
Funeral arrangements were by Shaw Funeral Home, Milton.
Editor's note: This obituary was provided by the family.
Suffering is not the absence of goodness, it is not the absence of beauty, but perhaps it can be the place where true beauty can be known.”
Thank you for sharing the link.
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