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Support pours in for teen who's ready to die
KHOU ^ | July 21, 2016

Posted on 07/23/2016 4:03:18 PM PDT by SMGFan

Cannot excerpt as a USAToday originated story. Today there is a story that 1000 attended her prom. Not certain if posting a link is even acceptable. But I could not find the story elsewhere.

(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: suicide
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To: SMGFan

She will eventually become a vegetable. She has chosen not to extend the machines that keep her alive. They don’t do much. It’s either choosing this way or doing it in secret one night with pills or other means without anyone knowing, then mom walks in on her body and wonders what she did wrong and why.


21 posted on 07/23/2016 5:27:57 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: soycd; ilovesarah2012

Thanks for your responses. Seems I focused on one reply and got the wrong idea about this story.


22 posted on 07/23/2016 5:32:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Tax-chick

Choose to live. Otherwise one is committing suicide.


23 posted on 07/23/2016 5:44:47 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Olog-hai

You are so right.


24 posted on 07/23/2016 5:45:49 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Moonman62

**She’s making her own decision to stop using artificial means to stay alive.**

How old is she?


25 posted on 07/23/2016 5:46:29 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: soycd

God allows some of us to suffer. That suffering is our ticket to heaven when we accept it.


26 posted on 07/23/2016 5:47:35 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: soycd

Nobody is innocent, we’re all guilty of sin and deserve death.

Nothing but the sacrifice Jesus Christ will redeem us. Thankfully, He died for us, it’s a free gift for eternal life.


27 posted on 07/23/2016 6:11:32 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Salvation

She has a fatal disease. She will die naturally with palliative care. It’s not suicide.


28 posted on 07/23/2016 6:11:54 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Tax-chick; Salvation

“Jerika Bolen, a 14-year-old Appleton girl, has made the decision to end her life at the end of the summer. She has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, an incurable genetic disease, and plans to go without a ventilator on her own terms.”


29 posted on 07/23/2016 6:13:57 PM PDT by Pelham (Best.Election.Ever)
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To: Salvation

Hogwash.

Suffering is not a ticket anywhere. It can build character and such, but the only ticket to heaven is through Jesus Christ himself.


30 posted on 07/23/2016 6:14:31 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: SMGFan

There will be a fullcourt press to legalize euthanasia.

the plans have been in the works for years, and like Canada it will be done by the courts or fiat by regulations.

it is about saving money, not about compassion.


31 posted on 07/23/2016 7:07:57 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people.)
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To: SMGFan

There’s a post over at Hot Air about this, you could probably post that link if you wanted.

Very sad.


32 posted on 07/23/2016 7:48:33 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Tax-chick

“...she plans to kill herself.”

She plans to die, by ceasing to avail herself of treatment. But I just read the Hot Air story.


33 posted on 07/23/2016 7:50:21 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Olog-hai
by your standards, we must subject ourselves to every machine, every medicine, every diagnostic tool,every tube, etc to stay alive..otherwise, we're committing suicide?....

no, not even close...

34 posted on 07/23/2016 7:56:59 PM PDT by cherry
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To: soycd

No God I know lets innocents suffer.

sounds like you know definitely -

then you obviously don’t know God.

I guess your ways, your thoughts and your feelings are what count - not Gods.

good luck with that


35 posted on 07/23/2016 8:10:48 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam = FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD)
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To: cherry

I misunderstood the thread. Thought it was about suicide.


36 posted on 07/23/2016 8:29:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Tax-chick

She shouldn’t have announced her plan.


37 posted on 07/23/2016 8:46:26 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Salvation

Please provide biblical references for that statement.

Scripture is very clear. Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ alone. It is not of works or suffering or any other human means.


38 posted on 07/23/2016 8:51:13 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: .45 Long Colt

Look at the Passion of Christ and the suffering. We unite our suffering with his.


39 posted on 07/23/2016 8:53:30 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: soycd

There are no innocents. Because of what happened in the Garden, we enter this world dead in trespasses and sins and the wages of sin is death. We aren’t sinners because we commit sins. Rather, we sin because we are sinners by nature.

As for God not allowing suffering, ever studied the life of Job? Or Joseph? Or David? Or Paul? Or CHRIST Himself?


40 posted on 07/23/2016 9:00:43 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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