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Brittany Maynard, Death With Dignity Advocate, Dies At 29
The Huffington Post ^ | 11/02/2014 | Alana Horowitz

Posted on 11/02/2014 10:07:46 PM PST by Bettyprob

Brittany Maynard, the Oregon woman who had become an outspoken advocate for patients' rights following her terminal cancer diagnosis, died on Saturday, the Oregonian reported. She was 29.

"Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love," she wrote in a Facebook post, according to People. "Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness... the world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers... goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!"

Earlier this year, Maynard learned that she was suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma and had only six months to live. After hearing what the disease would to her body in its final stages, she decided that she wanted to die on her own terms.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: brittanymaynard; cancer; lookatme; maynard; mememe; oregon
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To: Bettyprob

If only she lived a little longer she could have squeezed a couple more cliches into her final post.


21 posted on 11/02/2014 10:41:19 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Arthur McGowan

And I understand you then. You don’t have a choice in the suicide decision if you are in the right kind of pain. Got it. Situational ethics I see.
So do you think it’s hell, or maybe just 3-5 in the fictional purgatory thing?


22 posted on 11/02/2014 10:42:18 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Fungi
You are not going to like this, but how did she know it was 100% terminal? Medicine and opinions change by the day, the hour.

Amen. And that's exactly what keeps cancer patients going and oncologists encouraging them.

Plus, there are patients who do beat this type of cancer at the same stage. For example:

ABC News: Mom Stuns Doctors, Beats Deadliest Brain Cancer

23 posted on 11/02/2014 10:43:24 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: joyce11111

You know, we on the right should all be as calloused, heartless, and as cold as we can. We should speak of this little girl in the most vile ways we can. There isn’t an election in two days or anything.
This sounds like DU in the venom aimed at that little girl. Embarrassing.


24 posted on 11/02/2014 10:47:15 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Bettyprob

This whole thing is about assisted suicide. The media loves it and her. Sickos.


25 posted on 11/02/2014 10:48:34 PM PST by AbortionIsEvil
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To: All

Sure is sick how many conservatives cheer an assisted suicide advocate.


26 posted on 11/02/2014 10:48:34 PM PST by AbortionIsEvil
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To: Bettyprob

God help this country when Government gets involved with assisted suicide~~went so well with abortion!


27 posted on 11/02/2014 10:48:43 PM PST by Isabel2010
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To: Tired of Taxes
Knies has a few of her own theories for why she is still alive today.

"One, being God had a plan for me," said Knies. "I also had a great team of doctors and wonderful family and friends with a positive attitude."

28 posted on 11/02/2014 10:49:23 PM PST by hope (Whom the Son sets free is free indeed!)
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To: DesertRhino

Your comments are quite mixed up.

And angry.

What’s wrong?


29 posted on 11/02/2014 10:49:51 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: AbortionIsEvil

Big difference in cheering her, and showing a little compassion to someone who’s brain was literally self destructing. You can out debate a young girl with a defective brain. Congrats big man.


30 posted on 11/02/2014 10:51:06 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino
Did they owe it to God to accept being burned alive?

You ask a question the morons cannot answer.

31 posted on 11/02/2014 10:52:34 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: hope
Deuteronomy 30:19

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

32 posted on 11/02/2014 10:54:39 PM PST by hope (Whom the Son sets free is free indeed!)
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To: ifinnegan

Oh, anger is just another service I provide!


33 posted on 11/02/2014 10:59:01 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: cynwoody
Do you know why the "morons" cannot answer...We don't know the hearts of those who jumped. They may have been choosing to live.

We do know the choice that Brittany Maynard made.

34 posted on 11/02/2014 10:59:15 PM PST by hope (Whom the Son sets free is free indeed!)
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To: DesertRhino
Last I heard the only thing that sends one to hell is not accepting Jesus as your savior.

That is a too common misinterpretation. Accepting Jesus as Savior and Lord is accepting Him as your substitute before God. You exchange places. He died for you, you live because of Him. If He is not your substitute, you stand before God on your own merit and you WILL fall short.

If a man stands trial for murder and during the trial he is offered a pardon but rejects the pardon because of conditions (counting the costs), then what ultimately sends him to prison? Is he sent to prison for rejecting the pardon? No. He is sent to prison for murder.

Everyone who goes to hell gets there because the wages of sin is death and all have sinned. Pardon comes to those whose debt was paid by another -- the only worthy substitute. WORTHY IS THE LAMB WHO WAS SLAIN.

35 posted on 11/02/2014 10:59:46 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: DesertRhino
The Catholic Church does not say that all suicides go direct to Hell. Only those who have the clarity of thought necessary to make the decision fully cognizant of the fact that they are throwing away God's gift of life. It is believed that most suicides are part of a larger illness like depression or psychosis. It has been a long time since the Church has stated what you believe.

As for the poor people who chose to jump instead of burn to death, they did not commit suicide. They where murdered. They where fleeing from the onslaught of flame as best they could. They had no choice in the matter.

Ms. Maynard bot only was fully conscious of her act, she also broadly publicized it for the further aggrandizement of an act that is one of desperation and self murder. It was not only an act that was likely wrong, it was also raveled in by those who participated in it bringing great publicity to an evil enterprise, intentional self murder.

36 posted on 11/02/2014 11:01:12 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: cynwoody

Cheers! I’ve always been the type that if I ride up on a hanging, I’ll jump in with the underdog. I don’t like seeing defenseless people getting kicked around.


37 posted on 11/02/2014 11:01:37 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: hope
Do you know why the "morons" cannot answer...We don't know the hearts of those who jumped. They may have been choosing to live.

I'm not referring to those who jumped. I am referring only to those turds who question their judgement in jumping.

38 posted on 11/02/2014 11:03:35 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: DesertRhino
Cheers! I’ve always been the type that if I ride up on a hanging, I’ll jump in with the underdog. I don’t like seeing defenseless people getting kicked around.

Best to have a Dillon Aero to mop up the kickers around.

39 posted on 11/02/2014 11:08:05 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Jim from C-Town

True, Catholics did use their famed legalistic sophistry to move away from the older suicide position. Now if you commit suicide, you’re crazy from depression, ergo, not responsible. But if your brain is eaten at with cancer and you are having seizures and convulsions worsening, you are clearly of sound mind.
Interesting.


40 posted on 11/02/2014 11:09:03 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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