I imagine that she is already regretting her action.
At least the bear didn’t get her...
Man this is a tough story.
While I can’t agree with all of her ‘promotion’ of this act, there is a part of it that does make you think. I’ve watched several relatives get into positions where they were totally dependent on the outside world for EVERYTHING. And while I never caught any care giver mistreating any of them, when you leave you wonder.
And I remember always thinking as I drove away - THAT AIN’T GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME.
I really don’t know what I’d do if I had a condition that was going to take away my ability to be me - but I’m not going to be a vegetable.
Prayers for her soul and her family
Rest in peace.
I suppose in reading many of the comments here and in other threads on this poor girl it would be more humane to have her suffer and enjoin her family to suffer watching it.
/s
A disease is only incurable until someone figures out a cure, but if everyone gives up upon diagnoses then there is no incentive to ever find a cure.
I can’t condemn her actions. I watched my brother die a slow agonizing death. He would never have done what this woman did but I’m not sure I wouldn’t do it. If I had the guts. So, let God be the judge.
It is sad that she didn’t mention God in her final words.
The media is loving this.
Prayers for Brittany’s family.
I have posted before here on FR my families experience w/a Glioblastoma Muliforme. So with my history and horrific knowledge of what occurs w/a Glioblastoma that I UNDERSTAND her decision and her families support of it.
Glios “grow” volumetrically and quickly. The “blastoma” is the insidious path between healthy brain tissue that the tumor takes. Today the pt may speak a word or two tomorrow, speech is gone.
My mom had seizures that broke her teeth, and at one point bit thru her tongue (her facial spasms actually displaced her bite guard). At the end moms seizures were so violent (Dilantin and other anti seizure meds stopped working) that the hospital bed (locked wheels) would “jump.” And she was only about 4’8” and 100 lbs BEFORE she took ill.
If there is another version of hell on earth, I’d like it explained to me. Her illness lasted six months and one day (the extra day because we know one of her neurologists said “she won’t live 6 months”) from the day I found her on the kitchen floor (she had a grand mal seizure). She had never complained of headaches, or dizziness (but she had bruises and scraps that were discovered AFTER she was admitted to the hospital so she must have had seizures when she was alone). In moms case the parts of her brain affected caused hundred of seizures (that both surgery and meds only slowed never stopped). She was 55 when she died.
So I truly understand why Brittany did what she did.
It’s for God to judge, not us. May she rest in peace.
She died but why is this such news? Many die the same way every day. I hope she took the time to prepare her soul as she did preparing the news media. Eternity is a very long time. I read not one word of her expectations the moment after her departure.