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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A lot of people on this thread seem to think they own their lives. They’re wrong.
We haven’t heard, and may never hear, but it’s certainly possible that Brittany passed away peacefully also.
There is no assisted suicide in her home state. That’s why.
That’s been answered a number of times.
I just answered it again for someone else.
Just because you don’t agree with the answer doesn’t mean it isn’t the answer.
Disingenuousness is unbecoming.
Possibly. The piece written by the national Right to Life group in response to her promotion of assisted suicide pointed out the errors in her position. That was my point.
That was not my question. Why didn’t she just commit suicide by herself in her home state? People do it all the time, unfortunately.
But what you state is a fact. The original statement was not a fact.
This person oddly was promoting this event and was politicizing her death.
It was sick , undignified and graceless.
I had two family members died from cancer but they did with private grace and dignity . It was awful but they did it for there children too . It wasn't all about them. They did not peddle there political agenda and SELL their story to the Daily Mail.
I know the question is hard to answer.
But one cannot state that Ms. Maynard could not commit suicide in her home state. She could. Ms. Maynard wanted someone else to kill her.
We may disagree on whether or not that should happen but I refuse to pretend that is not the true issue.
I tend to agree with you.
But...and this is a significant but, our constitution and our traditions do not allow us to foist our views on anyone else.
This is a secular issue, in terms of the legality.
I know some women that have those.
This time last year I probably would mostly have agreed with you but seeing it take down a 30+ year friend and witnessing the decline into near vegetable status affected me greatly, no one should have to suffer like that.
I’m sorry she was sick.
But she murdered herself. That’s the cold hard fact.
She took God’s final prerogative unto herself.
She mistakenly believed that her life was her own, when in fact it belonged to the One Who created her.
The cavalier and even approving attitude towards this way of looking at life and the world here tonight is shocking, frankly.
The abandonment of the cornerstone principle of this free republic, that our rights, starting with the right to life, come from God, and that those rights are UNALIENABLE, ie that they cannot be rightfully taken OR GIVEN AWAY, is a dangerous, destructive path to go down.
Excellent comment.
No, actually it wasn't. I didn't ask why she moved to OR. I asked why, if this act of self-destruction was so personal and private, she felt the need to make it such a public spectacle? I don't care where she did it, except for the fact OR is a deep blue state and as always with Liberals there is an exaltation of death.
I would want to die on my own terms.
I don’t want my life extended if it means I can’t enjoy what time I have left.
The quality of one’s life is far more important than the length of one’s life.
May the Lord have mercy upon you. Rest in peace, Brittany.
As I was typing it, i has a vision or two in my head.
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