No there unfortunately just isn’t. When officially diagnosed from this type there is no recovery. No praying...no chemo...no hoping...no shrinking...When diagnosed there is no coming bacback from this one. I hope she does reconsider but I respect her choice in this matter to not live her last days in excruciating agony and pain.
And this has long been true. A favorite and very experienced doctor --- Dr. Jose Espinosa --- told me 30 years ago, "I have never seen intractable pain, BUt I have seen intractable doctors and nurses."
Second,what she proposes to do affects not only herself, but many, many other persons in a disastrous way. Legal "assisted" suicide deeply corrupts the medical, legal, and political professions. It turns medicine, law and government away from the desiderata of what is naturally good, and in favor of mere demand.
Anyone who wants to commit suicide on their own can do so, and 30 minutes' worth of mousing around on the Internet can tell you how.
But don't insist on "authorization" or "participation" from church or state or medico or politico. Surely in the name of autonomy, a would-be suicider can take care of business without insisting on corrupting everybody around them.
A self-respecting suicider (I am not recommending this) should be responsible for himself. This "legalized" "physician-assisted" crap just puts more death-dealing power in the hands of the State, to be used against persons far more vulnerable than this proud, attractive, articulate, but terminal and terminally self-serving lady.
I agree with you. Her biggest mistake was going public with this. Now, sentiment, opinion and presumption are in full spin cycle. Only her immediate lawyers and clergy, if she has one, needed to know.
The fact that she has gone so public has got me wondering if she wishes to be talked out of it. Something like the Sylvia Plath Syndrome. Sylvia Plath, an early 20th Century poet, author of The Bell Jar, was notorious for her repeated attempts to kill herself, until finally she (some say inadvertently) succeeded. Some hard core literary fans blamed her husband Ted Hughes infidelity for her death. Ted lived until 1998.
Without those, I will agree with you, suicide is quite logical.
It’s a really terrible way to go too. Lost a friend to it several years ago. At first there was some hope. Word was brain cancer tended to stay put, didn’t spread like cancers below the neck. They cut out the tumor, and chemo rounds were taken. Then they said she was cancer free.
But it came back, they operated again. Then came the seizures, which became more and more frequent until she finally died during one.
She was a fighter, but I have zero doubt given the option she would have opted for doctor assisted suicide that second time.
If there is no praying, there is no hope for anyone. That includes you, not just other people with diagnosed illnesses. Life is too precious to throw it away. That includes the lives of other people with diagnosed illnesses, not just yours.