Posted on 10/07/2014 7:03:22 AM PDT by Borges
A terminally ill 29-year-old woman has chosen November 1 as the day she will die.
Shortly after her wedding in 2013, Brittany Maynard of Portland, Ore., began experiencing debilitating headaches.
While on vacation with her husband in January, Brittany was diagnosed with grade II Astrocytoma, a severe brain tumor. Doctors told her she had 10 years left to live.
“I have to tell you,” she says in the video, “when you’re 29 years old, being told you have that kind of timeline still feels like being told you’re going to die tomorrow.”
Following the original diagnosis, doctors said her cancer had progressed to Glioblastoma multiforme, the deadliest form of brain cancer. After treatment, the average life expectancy is only 14 months.
When doctors told Brittany her death would likely be slow and painful as the tumor continued to grow, she opted to choose her own ending.
On November 1, surrounded by her husband, mother and best friend, she will end her life using medication prescribed by her doctor.
Maynard’s husband’s birthday is October 30.
The medication will give her a “peaceful and painless” ending to her life. However, Brittany said this is not a suicide.
“There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die,” Maynard told People.com. “I want to live. I wish there was a cure for my disease but there’s not. … Being able to choose to go with dignity is less terrifying.”
Maynard’s family moved with her to Oregon earlier this year so she would have access to Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Act,” which has allowed over 750 people to die using medication since 1997.
Life-rights advocacy organization Compassion & Choices and The Brittany Maynard Fund will provide Brittany a platform to share her story and bring attention to the end-of-life rights.
According to Compassion & Choices, Brittany will spend her last days fighting for others’ rights to end their lives.
Difficult rather than wrong?
Very subtle of you.
Your statement was “ to not suffer your final hours...”. Hospice helps so you don’t suffer in your final hours.
If you want to ammend your statement, go right ahead.
Oh please. The arguments here bear out that it’s difficult.
Sad. I wish this woman would consult outside of traditional medicine before Nov 1. What a difficult thing for her to go through (and her family too).
She won’t live long enough for that
Also in Nadsat, my skeggy droog...
The individual is free to off themselves in private. Please leave the health care industry out of it to heal individuals, totalitarian reprobates...
Being able to choose to go with dignity is less terrifying.”
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what’s that suppose to mean...
youre still dead..
you know, the scary deal...
DEAD
I like how you push your agenda, subtle it is, post the thread and start it with the word “difficult”.
Subtle.
You would have to have complete ignorance of the Bible to not understand that suffering is something we must endure and something that has infinite value to God. Jesus knew his fate and could have chosen this route as well. But then we wouldn’t have salvation now would we? I pray she reconsiders. It is sad all around.
Don’t be stupid. Hospices don’t use lethal injection the way this woman is.
they gave her 10 more years...
Families privately make the decision to administer intentionally lethal drug overdoses all the time?
It's the slippery slope that can lead to destruction of nations by the Lord.
Suicide should not be illegal, but it should also not be mandatory.
Having watched a friend die of this in the last year I cannot fault her decision.
I’m no longer responding to your inane attempt to hijack this thread with non-existent agendas (which you find with every almost thread on this site).
an aunt died at 32 of uterine cancer ..
her children were about that age..
she was the baby of the family..
It is very difficult, and I am not going to judge.
Is it really any different than a DNR decision?
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