I am sorry for their loss, and the pain and fear their daughter faced. I am more sad she chose to end her life, and purveyors of the culture of death are using it to line their pockets and advance their agenda.
Despite its sting, truth is liberating.
What did you expect....applause?
… “When she was little, as a single mom I had a single mom friend, and we’d take them camping. We're trying to be super moms, so we’d get her and her friend, load up our van and take them rowing and fishing and rock climbing and all that stuff, because we had decided we didn’t need men in our lives—we could do it all,” Ziegler said. …Just a bit of background on the moral stance of Brittany’s mother. No bearing on the girl’s disease, but possibly has a bearing on the kind of mindset taught to her that would result in her deciding to kill herself.
Dear Mom,
Your fifteen minutes are over. Move along.
Sincerely,
Everybody Else
There are plenty of FReepers who will mock her death. They are among the first to pick up stones.
When you make a big public deal about your suicide do not try to respond to criticism with “private family moment”.
Whenever I am being blasted by someone, I always consider the source.
Since she doesn’t have a husband, I guess the Pope is standing in for him in her mind.
“Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.”
She really needs to go to the source and not one of the representatives.
If she’s not Catholic, what does she care what the Vatican says?
If she really wants to be upset, she should contemplate that the Muslims she know want her dead, and consider her daughter a good start.
Guess what, Mrs. Ziegler. How you feel doesn’t matter.
Of course the Pope is going to speak out against a media-supported push to make suicide seem normal. The Catholic church has always been against the practice.
There is no Right to Die in the Constitution.
Your daughter decided to go public with what should've been a private decision.
She decided to use her name to raise money for a pro-suicide agenda (instead of using her name to raise funds for a cure).
And when other cancer patients - suffering from the same cancer - expressed their concerns about pro-suicide laws, she expressed no concern for them. And she blasted a hospice doctor for talking about palliative care.
So, sorry, Ms. Ziegler, but one cannot stand upon a bully pulpit and then expect everyone else to shut up.
To anyone who believes this post is cruel, please note the next line:
The `culture of cure' has led to a fairy tale belief that doctors can always fix our problems," she wrote.
Well, well... Now we're the "culture of cure." I hope everyone sees clearly where this movement leads.
I agree with Brittany Maynard’s mother.
Well, Debbie, sometimes people don’t agree with us.
Ping.
Dear Debbie Ziegler,
I am sorry for your loss. Didn’t you say, you supported your daughter’s right to end her life. Why be angry with Pope?