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Posted on 11/01/2014 11:34:33 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
It’s November 1, the day Brittany Maynard vowed to kill herself. The 29-year-old California woman says she no longer finds life worth living after being diagnosed this past spring with stage 4 glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor.
Brittany has become the poster girl for “Compassion & Choices, ” a so-called “end-of-life choice” advocacy organization that is fighting to increase the number of stateS with so-called “Death With Dignity” laws on the books.
The model is Oregon, the state to which Brittany relocated this past summer because her home state of California doesn’t allow physician-assisted suicide (at least for now).
Oregon is one of five states – along with Montana, Washington, New Mexico and Vermont – that allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to patients like Brittany, diagnosed with terminal illnesses, longing for a premature death.
And Compassion & Choices has campaigns underway underway in four other states to legalize euthanasia – Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts and, of course, California (so terminally ill residents like Brittany don’t have to go all the way to Oregon to kill themselves).
If the pro-euthanasia movement succeeds in nearly doubling the number of states with “Death With Dignity” laws, it will only be a matter of time before physician-assisted suicide is routine throughout the county – like physician-assisted abortion.
Indeed, just as Planned Parenthood soft-pedals abortion as “reproductive health care,” Compassion & Choices portrays euthanasia as end-of-life “comfort and control.”
And they are shamelessly exploiting terminally ill Brittany, casting her as the face of the euthanasia movement and even setting up The Brittany Maynard Fund not to benefit her family – she and her recently-wed husband are childless – but to raise money to further Compassion & Choices’ political advocacy.
Well, as a Christ follower who this very year was a pallbearer at his 83-year-old father-in-law’s funeral, who had no moral qualms with the family’s decision not to resuscitate him when he drew his last breath, I have nothing but empathy for those who find themselves in similar situations.
But it’s one thing to allow a natural death, and quite another to actively terminate life, as in the case of euthanasia.
Indeed, God’s precious gift of life is cheapened when we send off the terminally ill, like Brittany, to a hasty death.
If we accept euthanasia today for those diagnosed with six months to live, do we accept it tomorrow for anyone with a terminal illness – cancer, Alzheimer’s, whatever – no matter how far they may be from death’s door?
Is it hard to imagine Compassion & Choices one day begging the question why the “comfort and choice” of euthanasia should be limited strictly to those with terminal illnesses?
What about those of weakened mind or sinew who feel that their quality of life has so deteriorated that death would be welcome?
And why should euthanasia be restricted to adults only? What about the infant suffering from a fatal illness? Why not put the child out of his or her misery?
Because life is sacred, as the Scripture reminds.
“Do you not know,” the Apostle Paul wrote, “that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit? You are not our own. You were bought with a price.”
I thought I read somewhere that she was not going to go through with it today.
Pray for her to unite her suffering to Christ’s suffering on the Cross.
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A cure like like eating a dozen cookies and donuts with a glass of milk.
I agree. We should each focus on doing God's work, not God's job.
For starters is she even a Christian?
If not God won’t forgive her even if she dies a “natural” death.
LOL! or a good steak, baked potato, and some good red wine.
She is a sharp contrast from Lauren Hill who is living every day to its fullest. NCAA has moved up their basketball schedule so she can play in one college game on Nov. 2. Her doctors give her only a few weeks.
You’re saying not being a Christian is unforgiveable? Chuckle.
Right-to-die cancer patient rethinks suicide plan
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/30/brittany-maynard-terminally-ill-cancer-patient-ret/
Not a Christian? That doesn’t condemn you. Your sins do that all on their own.
I’m saying only those who place their faith in Jesus are saved.
I take it you disagree?
The answer (from the bible) is yes, she could be forgiven.
(Matthew 12:31)
And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
BTW, the sin that cannot be forgiven (blasphemy against the Holy Spirit), is the sin of unbelief that the Son of God came to give us the gift of Salvation.
(That is scriptural too) I leave it to you to find that scripture!
And they are shamelessly exploiting terminally ill Brittany, casting her as the face of the euthanasia movement and even setting up The Brittany Maynard Fund not to benefit her family – she and her recently-wed husband are childless – but to raise money to further Compassion & Choices’ political advocacy.
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She’s either a quitter or a procrastinator.
I despise both.
Then again, maybe she scripted her 15 minutes ...
“For starters is she even a Christian?
If not God won’t forgive her even if she dies a “natural” death.”
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Growing up as a Catholic, I remember being taught that non-Catholics wouldn’t attain salvation.
I don’t belong to the Catholic Church anymore and this sanctimonious attitude is one of many reasons. We don’t know what criteria God will consider when we appear before Him for judgment. Suicide may be a sin, but is it possible God will look at our lives as a whole and put more emphasis upon the good we have done?
As a Christian I have to go with what Scripture teaches. We are all sinners. Jesus died for our sins. If I believe that and repent of my sins I will be saved. No "good works" I do will earn my way into Heaven.
So I suppose she prays “not thy will but mine be done”?
It thought the prayer was “they will not mine” rather than “my will not thine”.
I can promise one thing. If I did it a cheap easy cure for whatever I had would be discovered the next day.
Sounds like my luck. I could fall into a barrel of t.ts and come up sucking my thumb!
You’re asking a self serving but otherwise pointless question.
So for those who believe all suicide is the unforgivable sin... how does that square with those who throw themselves on a grenade to save the other members of a platoon in a war zone? Is this an “unforgivable” act?
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