Posted on 11/02/2014 5:40:12 PM PST by Steelfish
'Goodbye World. Spread Good Energy': Terminal Cancer Patient, Brittany Maynard, 29, Exercises Her Right-to-Die And Takes Her Own Life Surrounded By Her Family Brittany Maynard, 29, had previously planned to legally end her life on November 1 - before she loses her battle with terminal brain cancer She died on Sunday in her Portland, Oregon home on Sunday Maynard wrote on Facebook: 'Goodbye to all my dear friends and family' Added that she had 'a ring of support' around her as she typed Was diagnosed in April and doctors gave her just six months to live She then made headlines around the world announcing she wanted to die By WILLS ROBINSON 2 November 2014l According to friends and family of Brittany Maynard, she passed away in her Portland, Oregon, home after her condition worsened. The People said she wrote on Facebook : 'Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love. 'Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me … but would have taken so much more.' Scroll down for video 'Today I chose to die with dignity': According to friends and family of Brittany Maynard, she passed away in her Portland, Oregon, home after her condition worsened
'Today I chose to die with dignity': According to friends and family of Brittany Maynard, she passed away in her Portland, Oregon, home after her condition worsened
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I think euthanasia makes certain others uncomfortable, because it threatens their belief system that any kind of life is always worth living.
And so they would rather see someone like this woman suffer so they can go on pretending that life is always worth it no matter what.
And why shouldn't she have?
She had to spend her last days in another state, because her home state would not allow her to take her own life.
Maybe that pro-euthanasia group can get that to change.
You should read the Right to Life response to this. Death with dignity isn’t the peaceful transition that proponents claim.
She could have committed suicide in her home state. She could have taken her own life.
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You seem to be suggesting there are peaceful ways. Could you describe some?
It is now between her and God, but I do wish some of the pro people would explain to me why she had to make such a public spectacle of what was claimed to be a personal and private act.
Yes. What concerns me most is that the “right” to die inevitably becomes the demand to die, whether it is your choice or not. It is happening in Holland. It happens everyday with abortion. Husbands, boyfriends, parents, and even employers demanding and/or pressuring pregnant women and girls to have abortions.
With Obamacare, the right will most certainly become a demand.
She describes the event in the last day or two that caused her to do this now.
Her final statement contained no mention of God. She killed herself, as planned, so she clearly knew what she was doing and she seemed to believe she had no soul or that her soul would be annihilated when she died. If you think she’s correct in believing such, there’s no convincing you that she was morally wrong to have killed herself. However, those who do believe in God and happen to believe she had a “right” to kill herself, please tell me what significance you attach to her not mentioning God in her final statement?
I’m not sure I understand your question. If you mean a peaceful way of suicide, then, no, I don’t believe that happens.
It’s been explained already, but I’ll repeat it for you.
One of the reasons, certainly, was because her state would not allow assisted suicide. That forced her to move elsewhere to die.
look at Europe, people are being put to die without asking for it
I’m asking you for a description of a peaceful way of dying.
That is a beautiful statement, windsor.
And played it badly.
I wonder why Ms. Maynard did not just do it herself in her home state?
Haven’t witnessed it myself, but I have heard of descriptions of people passing away peacefully.
I can’t either, and as a Christian (and Catholic) I know the severity of a decision of suicide. I prayed for her soul and asked God to have mercy on her. I can’t say I wouldn’t do the same in her horrible situation...more to spare the toll on my family than myself.
That said, I know there are dark forces in our government and society that will use this for every bit of mileage they can get to further an agenda that has nothing to do with mercy.
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Thanks for expressing both sides of the issue. It’s tiring to see the contest between those trying to be the holiest.
“Such a shame”
Such a shame she had cancer.
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