Death Can Wait - Page 7

goodstuff · ‎03-09-2010

I am glad. Years ago I watched an excellent PBS documentary with Bill Moyers about assisted suicide. The two patients featured in the documentary, one with Lou Gehrig's disease and one with terminal cancer, both made arrangements to end their lives at their own volition when they felt the time was right and life was no longer worth living. What was so interesting was that both of them experienced the progression of their illnesses, and both of them eventually died of their illnesses. In spite of the means to take their own lives being prepared and at hand, ultimately neither of them chose suicide. Fascinating and thought-provoking.

makeup addict · ‎03-29-2010

Good stuff, I read an article that said less than half of thepoeple who got the medication in Oregon, committed suicide.

abbeythe 8th · ‎04-17-2010

On 11/2/2014 Jig Saw said:
Another attention seeker imo or otherwise she would just"" go quietly into that good night"" instead of making a big announcement and then having to back up an punt. Gotta love the attention.

Marienkaefer2 · ‎03-09-2010

On 10/31/2014 kze said:
Did anyone read the first comment under the yahoo link? It's from a woman who's mother had the same disease and was given a short time to live. She chose to go through all the treatments and lived 19 years! Very interesting. But every person is different.

That's interesting, and happy for your friend. But the doctors I saw interviewed on this particular type of cancer say that life expectancy with treatment is about 18 months. And as the disease progresses, not good months. The seizures get worse and more ravaging and the end is not peaceful. I saw an interview with Brittany and she had been suffering horrific seizures. She has plans for when she feels it is time, and she wants to do.it before the disease takes brain function away. She wants to be in her bedroom with her parents, husband, and best friend present,. She wants to.go.peacefully. At any rate, it's ultimately her decision. She said just knowing she has that control gives her peace.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.--Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oostende · ‎03-14-2010

I don't know but I just find this depressing and sad. I find nothing heroic or admirable in suicide. I wish this case hadn't received so much publicity because it seems to lessen the aversion to suicide, and I don't see how that can be a positive thing for society, unless we want more suicide.

At the end of the day, the young woman will be dead. Her loved ones will be heartbroken. I'm unconvinced that there is such a thing as a good way to die.

This doesn't mean I am against her having the choice. Suicide is a choice for all of us every single day. Human life is remarkably fragile. This case has taken on a celebrity aspect that troubles me.

Jig Saw · ‎09-03-2014

On 11/2/2014 Oostende said:
I don't know but I just find this depressing and sad. I find nothing heroic or admirable in suicide. I wish this case hadn't received so much publicity because it seems to lessen the aversion to suicide, and I don't see how that can be a positive thing for society, unless we want more suicide.

At the end of the day, the young woman will be dead. Her loved ones will be heartbroken. I'm unconvinced that there is such a thing as a good way to die.

This doesn't mean I am against her having the choice. Suicide is a choice for all of us every single day. Human life is remarkably fragile. This case has taken on a celebrity aspect that troubles me.

Exactly. The whole thing should have been kept a private matter.

Marienkaefer2 · ‎03-09-2010

On 11/2/2014 Oostende said:
I don't know but I just find this depressing and sad. I find nothing heroic or admirable in suicide. I wish this case hadn't received so much publicity because it seems to lessen the aversion to suicide, and I don't see how that can be a positive thing for society, unless we want more suicide.

At the end of the day, the young woman will be dead. Her loved ones will be heartbroken. I'm unconvinced that there is such a thing as a good way to die.

This doesn't mean I am against her having the choice. Suicide is a choice for all of us every single day. Human life is remarkably fragile. This case has taken on a celebrity aspect that troubles me.

I agree. It is very sad. If you saw the interview with her and her family, your heart would break. I don't think that this is meant to be seen as heroic. I think it's meant to show that someone with a terminal disease that will take her life in an excruciating way has the choice to control her quality of life and how she passes. In that way, I find this to be uplifting. Because I would want to have the same choice. But that's just it, choice. Not everyone would make the same choice, and that's the way it should be. Also, if you look up the number of people who have taken the scripts and died under Death With Dignity since it was passed 20 years ago, it is minute.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.--Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marianne1 · ‎04-16-2013

The only thing I can possibly see as "heroic" in this is that she took the matter of her own future in her hands, that she faced it, and said "I will decide".

Again, a personal thing.

adelle38 · ‎03-09-2010

On 11/2/2014 Jig Saw said:
On 11/2/2014 Oostende said:
I don't know but I just find this depressing and sad. I find nothing heroic or admirable in suicide. I wish this case hadn't received so much publicity because it seems to lessen the aversion to suicide, and I don't see how that can be a positive thing for society, unless we want more suicide.

At the end of the day, the young woman will be dead. Her loved ones will be heartbroken. I'm unconvinced that there is such a thing as a good way to die.

This doesn't mean I am against her having the choice. Suicide is a choice for all of us every single day. Human life is remarkably fragile. This case has taken on a celebrity aspect that troubles me.

Exactly. The whole thing should have been kept a private matter.

She made it public because she wants others to have a choice to end unbearable suffering wherever they may live.She's not a publicity seeker. She's trying to help others.

It's always a victory for me when I remember why I entered a room.

Oostende · ‎03-14-2010

On 11/2/2014 adelle38 said:
On 11/2/2014 Jig Saw said:
On 11/2/2014 Oostende said:
I don't know but I just find this depressing and sad. I find nothing heroic or admirable in suicide. I wish this case hadn't received so much publicity because it seems to lessen the aversion to suicide, and I don't see how that can be a positive thing for society, unless we want more suicide.

At the end of the day, the young woman will be dead. Her loved ones will be heartbroken. I'm unconvinced that there is such a thing as a good way to die.

This doesn't mean I am against her having the choice. Suicide is a choice for all of us every single day. Human life is remarkably fragile. This case has taken on a celebrity aspect that troubles me.

Exactly. The whole thing should have been kept a private matter.

She made it public because she wants others to have a choice to end unbearable suffering wherever they may live.She's not a publicity seeker. She's trying to help others.

She is a publicity seeker. She made it public, ostensibly to help others, ergo she is a publicity seeker. That's why she made it public. I don't question her motives or her choice.

But this has taken on some aspects of a cause celebre and that is what troubles me.

By the way, suicide is not a new thing. It's as old as time. She is trying to change the way we think about suicide. Personally, I think it is wretched, sad, and heartbreaking. It is the end of hope. I can't see it as empowering or noble. It's just sad.