Posted on 11/14/2014 5:40:42 PM PST by jimbo123
Diem Brown hated to lose. She had an irreverent sense of humor. She loved to dance.
More than anything, she never wanted to be seen as a quitter.
All of those qualities were on display in the last days before her death on Friday at age 32, a time during which she fought to reconcile her devastating cancer diagnosis with her unyielding will to live.
"We kept telling her, 'This is not giving up. You have fought enough,' " says her close friend Julie Rotondi.
When the MTV Challenge star finally decided to forgo any further treatment on Thursday, she worried that her fans would see it as a sign of defeat.
"It wasn't a sign of weakness," says Rotondi. "It wasn't about giving up. In the end, it wasn't like, 'Do you want to keep fighting?' In the end, there is nothing they can do. It just became so aggressive, so fast. The cancer was just multiplying at such an aggressive rate that nothing could keep up. Any treatment that could have maybe prolonged [her life] for a week or two and it would have been a horrible, horrible ending."
Instead, her final hours were spent in the company of friends and family. Yesterday, she and her close friend Alicia Quarles prayed together alongside pastors from Hillsong Church.
"She asked me to get her into prayer position," says Quarles. "That girl got on her knees and we prayed. She asked me to pray for peace."
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Diem Brown @DiemBrownMTV · Nov 11
I NEED PRAyErs and advice my doctors are seemingly giving up but I won’t & can’t rollover. Whatever option I have to LIVE I’m grabbing!
Very sad..she had Ovarian cancer in 2006 so young..then to get a relapse in the colon and stomach..Ovarian Cancer is one of the most deadliest cancers you can get, spreads quick and when it comes back, comes back with a vengeance..RIP
No one is morally obligated to accept a disproportionate treatment (one in which the benefits are overweighted by the detriments). It is NOT the same as asking someone to take your life.
If I had a terminal disease, I want to spend my last days enjoying life in the company of family and friends.
I don’t want to be in the hospital to futilely mark time. A life well lived is the most important thing.
And to go out on your own terms is a triumph. Death, be not proud.
10 years of cancer and cancer treatments. And she never gave up her love of life.
A study in opposites; this lady here, who remained locked in battle to the point of being in denial, and the brunette lady from last week (name?) who decided not to stay around for a life full of testing, and waiting and recovering from the chemo.I don’t criticize either, because they were dealing with their own lives, not that of a child or a sick spouse. These women died in manners natural for themselves. I wish them peace and serenity.
Agreed. I’m against suicide.
But one has the right to reject medical treatment that offers no clear hope of recovery or beating a disease in a reasonable period of time.
No one wants to die. We have to look at Death in the face and decide how we live our lives. Not even Death can take that away from us.
We cannot always hold him away but we can make him tarry.
Yup.
If God wants to heal me, I bless Him. If He says its my time to come home, I bless Him, too.
In life and death, I submit to the just Judge Of The World.
I want to spend my last day in a lounge chair on the beach, facing the sunrise. Leave some snacks for the seagulls.
I know God will be with you every step of the way.
You will be in my prayers, along with your family.
God Bless.
My Brother in Law was diagnosed with Stage IV lung.
He fought it for 5 years. Eventually, it came back in spades but he got 5 more years than what he was anticipated to get. Take your victories where you can get them. But, at the end, he just didn’t have it in him to fight anymore and made his peace with his fate.
Good luck with your fight and my prayers are with you.
I can’t even imagine what you are going through- but thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
No one gets out of here alive
Got to admire a woman who fought so hard to live, sad that all that struggle and she couldn’t survive this..I hope in my lifetime there will be a cure for cancer, it has killed too many good people
Ovarian cancer at 23. That poor girl had a target on her back from the get go.
Sad
We kept telling her, ‘This is not giving up. You have fought enough,’
With friends like that....
My father was given less than ninety days to live upon diagnosis of metastasized kidney cancer. Five years later he was playing with his grand daughter on his front porch. When the lord calls, we go. Until then we persevere. Happiness and joy seems to have a power over cancer. Be as happy and joyful as you can. I believe it will help. God bless you. Prayers up.
You and your family will have my prayers.
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