Posted on 10/30/2014 9:16:04 AM PDT by wagglebee
Brittany Maynard has officially decided to delay her decision to kill herself under Oregon’s assisted suicide law on November 1. She says it “doesn’t seem like the right time now” to end her life.
Although cancer patients and pro-life groups have tried to talk her out of the decision, it now appears Maynard may have either been used by assisted suicide advocates to promote their agenda or may have been a part of a plan working in concert with them to attempt to legalize assisted suicide in additional states.
The 29-year-old terminally ill patient made nationally-discussed plans to take the lethal pill on November 1st to end her own life. After suffering from severe headaches, Brittany Maynard found out she had stage II glioblastoma multiforme and had up to ten years to live. However, after she had surgery, doctors found out that she had the most deadly form of brain cancer, stage IV glioblastoma multiforme. The cancer usually kills its victims in a matter of months.
After her diagnosis, Brittany decided that she wanted to move from her California home to Oregon so that she could have access to the “death with dignity” prescription. She had plans to die in her home surrounded by her mother, stepfather, husband and best friend.
But, now, Maynard has released a video saying she has reconsidered her decision and released a new video confirming her change of heart.
“I still feel good enough and I still have enough joy and I still laugh and smile with my family and friends enough that it doesn’t seem like the right time right now,” Maynard says in the new video. “But it will come, because I feel myself getting sicker. It’s happening each week.”
Maynard says in the video that she’s still waiting to see how her symptoms progress before deciding on a date to die.
Maynard said she had two seizures a week ago and she recalled how she looked at her husband, but she couldn’t say his name and wound up going to the hospital after the second seizure.
“I think sometimes people look at me and they think. ‘Well you don’t look as sick as you say you are,’ which hurts to hear, because when I’m having a seizure and I can’t speak afterwards, I certainly feel as sick as I am,” she says in the video. “When people criticize me for not waiting longer, or, you know, whatever they’ve decided is best for me, it hurts because really, I risk it every day, every day that I wake up.”
Some assisted suicide proponents say Maynard’s case has been used by euthanasia activists to promote assisted suicide. Case in point: the new video was released by the pro-assisted suicide group Compassion & Choices, which has pushed to legalize assisted suicide in numerous states.
Maynard herself pushes assisted suicide in a statement accompanying the video:
“I want to thank you for your incredible support. The outpouring of kindness that I have received since my story went public has been astounding. You’ve helped put the death-with-dignity movement in the hearts and minds of millions of Americans. All across the country, lawmakers have reached out saying that they want to introduce legislation to authorize aid in dying. That is real progress towards change,” a statement from Maynard reads on the YouTube video page.
The video also features Maynard’s mother, who looks the other way at her daughter’s decision to kill herself.
“It’s not my job to tell her how to live,” her mother, Debbie, says in the video. “And it’s not my job to tell her how to die.”
Oregon is one of five states, along with New Mexico, Montana, Washington , and Vermont, that allow assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act passed in 1997 and has resulted in 1,173 prescriptions, with 752 deaths resulting from access of the medication.
Whenever the subject of assisted suicide comes up, my concern is that there is the possibility someone was misdiagnosed, and does not have a terminal illness after all (I'm not saying that's the case with this young lady - I'm just speaking in general terms.) Even if the diagnosis is correct, people can sometimes live far longer that what was initially predicted. I knew someone who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in her mid 30s, and given 6 months to live. She was able to get into an experimental treatment program which prolonged her life for another 17 years. During much of that time, she had a good quality of life - able to work, travel, do just about anything she wanted, and got to see her kids grow up. This woman did have some setbacks along the way, some serious, but had a much longer and fulfilling life than what the doctors originally expected. Thank God she didn't have a Doctor Kervorkian advising her when she first became ill.
Maybe she doesn’t want to vote Democrat next Tuesday.
Dear Brittany:
Miracles can happen, if you put your trust in the Lord.
May the Lord bless you, amen.
5.56mm
Ha! I knew it.
I would like to see more humane means of exiting early rather than the current strategy of starving and dehydrating people to death. My wife’s grandmother recently passed that way after a stroke and living will kicked in. We’d be jailed for treating an animal that way yet we do it to our elderly.
At some point in a terminal illness with nothing to look forward to but pain and agony, not sure I would care to hang on but that is up to each individual I guess. Westerners are unique in this desire for loved ones to cling to the bitter end and I’m not sure that is all that healthy an attitude.
Poor woman. I hope that she continues to choose life.
So sad and for anyone going through this. I am praying for her.
It’ll never be “the right time”.
Dittoes ... praying for her.
As long as she is able to enjoy being with her family, she should focus on that.
The many prayers for her may have been answered.
But, if you decide to kill yourself, you don't need to tell the media. You don't need government approval.
You need a cliff. Or a running car in an enclosed space. Or a pile of sleeping pills and a warm bath. Of hire a Kennedy as a driver. Or load your gun.
Your decision is between you and God, or the lack of a God if that is your belief.
There is no role for the government in your decision, why invite them in?
So sorry to hear of her terrible troubles wyowolf. Prayers for her and your family. May God have Mercy.
->>>Montana, Washington , and Vermont, that allow assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act passed in 1997 and has resulted in 1,173 prescriptions, with 752 deaths resulting from access of the medication.
In my opinion, anytime a state becomes involved in helping a person to kill themselves, the state is assisting in murder. Don’t go yelling anyone, in saying it’s her right to do (on her own, yes) but once a government agency becomes involved; it’s something different. I am not going to judge this woman whatsoever.
How is your cousin doing? I hope things go as well as possible for her. Prayers for her and you all.
If you want to kill yourself, fine, but trying to corrupt the whole healthcare system into a deathcare system is plain 100% wrong.
He is doing ok. Lots of complications with meds. Funny thing is he is in UK and has been getting excellent care. I was really surprised. They found it and within a week they operated and removed about 95%. The chemo is working to keep the rest under control but he has lots of horrible side effects...certainly not something I would wish on anyone...he is 37 w wife 2 small kids.
Him...sorry i was referring to the lady. See post 37. I saw her scan... no chance for her...its huge. ; (
Read the last phrase again.
“...all they that hate me love death.”
It is one thing to accept death. It may be even be the right and brave thing to do under certain circumstances. Think of the oaths taken by soldiers. Also, there are things worse than death, and Christian martyrs for thousands of years have accepted death rather than renouncing God.
To love death is something entirely different.
She ended her life yesterday
http://www.people.com/article/brittany-maynard-died-terminal-brain-cancer
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