Interesting post I read on Facebook. Think about this:

 

Just a few weeks ago everyone was saying what a tragedy it was that Robin Williams committed suicide. They said he didn't have a choice and it was a result of mental illness.

 

Now this lady has a choice and is being called "brave, courages, etc." Unbelievable.

 

This guy is extremely to the right but this article is worth a read. There Is Nothing Brave About Suicide | TheBlaze.com

Interesting post I read on Facebook. Think about this:

 

Just a few weeks ago everyone was saying what a tragedy it was that Robin Williams committed suicide. They said he didn't have a choice and it was a result of mental illness.

 

Now this lady has a choice and is being called "brave, courages, etc." Unbelievable.

 

This guy is extremely to the right but this article is worth a read. There Is Nothing Brave About Suicide | TheBlaze.com

 

I have said already, if I get alzheimers, I will take care of it before MY FAMILY has to deal with it for years and years. And I even struggle with this choice: my mother has alzheimers, and this takes a huge toll on the person and especially on the family. I would never have wanted to see her this way, and she would never have wanted to create the challenges that the family has faced. Of course the medical community can prolong this life, but they can't improve it. I appreciate what this guy is saying and trying to say, but he is only looking at it from the perspective that the individual is taking this path to avoid their own pain and suffering, and I don't believe that would always be the case.

I have said already, if I get alzheimers, I will take care of it before MY FAMILY has to deal with it for years and years. And I even struggle with this choice: my mother has alzheimers, and this takes a huge toll on the person and especially on the family. I would never have wanted to see her this way, and she would never have wanted to create the challenges that the family has faced. Of course the medical community can prolong this life, but they can't improve it. I appreciate what this guy is saying and trying to say, but he is only looking at it from the perspective that the individual is taking this path to avoid their own pain and suffering, and I don't believe that would always be the case.

 

A critical part of the debate, IMHO.

Of course, if I get alzheimers, I will probably forget I ever wrote this. :idunno:

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Despite all of the above discussion, I think this is the most appropriate way to live when you are given a timeline.

I have said already, if I get alzheimers, I will take care of it before MY FAMILY has to deal with it for years and years. And I even struggle with this choice: my mother has alzheimers, and this takes a huge toll on the person and especially on the family. I would never have wanted to see her this way, and she would never have wanted to create the challenges that the family has faced. Of course the medical community can prolong this life, but they can't improve it. I appreciate what this guy is saying and trying to say, but he is only looking at it from the perspective that the individual is taking this path to avoid their own pain and suffering, and I don't believe that would always be the case.

 

Of course, if I get alzheimers, I will probably forget I ever wrote this. :idunno:

 

If you really feel that way, you should look into getting a living will. There are some online resources and things like that who can draft one. You just need to get it notarized. It's one of those things where things like journal entries, what you've told people in the past, or things of that nature won't be enough to suffice legally.

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Despite all of the above discussion, I think this is the most appropriate way to live when you are given a timeline.

That's a very emotional and touching story. One where I admit to getting a choked up. The way Lauren is choosing to live out her final days is an inspiration. But, I keep going back to, that is a choice Lauren has made. Why should Brittany not have the same right to choose that Lauren does?

That's a very emotional and touching story. One where I admit to getting a choked up. The way Lauren is choosing to live out her final days is an inspiration. But, I keep going back to, that is a choice Lauren has made. Why should Brittany not have the same right to choose that Lauren does?

 

I guess she does have the right to choose. But wouldn't you agree she is making the wrong choice (objectively)? Brittany is being selfish. She is saying "my suffering is not worth spending time with loved ones whom I may never see again," while Lauren is saying "all these people around me care for me and love me, so I am going to be as happy as possible so that they are too."

 

And what if by some miracle she survived? We'll never know because she chose not to even give it a chance.

I guess she does have the right to choose. But wouldn't you agree she is making the wrong choice (objectively)? Brittany is being selfish. She is saying "my suffering is not worth spending time with loved ones whom I may never see again," while Lauren is saying "all these people around me care for me and love me, so I am going to be as happy as possible so that they are too."

 

And what if by some miracle she survived? We'll never know because she chose not to even give it a chance.

Again, I say this:

 

I absolutely respect her decision and have zero issue with it. I'm assuming nobody on here has been in her position --- unless you are posting from the afterlife --- so I don't think you can judge her or understand her position until faced with it head-on.

 

The right decision for one person does not have to be the right decision for another.

After my grandmother go through 18 months of just misery and pain from cancer that the last time got her entire body' date=' I have no issue if someone in that condition wants to end their life.[/quote']

 

Much easier for people to speak who don't know what it's like to slowly and dreadfully die with the side effects involved. If you're given a death sentence, you should have the option to go out on your terms/conditions not the diseases.

Again, I say this:

 

 

 

The right decision for one person does not have to be the right decision for another.

 

Right and wrong are not subjective. Let's say her decision (A) is more 'right' than a decision (B) for someone else. The only way you can measure the "rightness" of these decisions would be to compare them to something else, to some standard of choices [what I call morality].

If you really feel that way, you should look into getting a living will. There are some online resources and things like that who can draft one. You just need to get it notarized. It's one of those things where things like journal entries, what you've told people in the past, or things of that nature won't be enough to suffice legally.

 

That is excellent advice! My wife and I both feel this way, but the document is necessary.

Raleigh Seminarian with terminal brain cancer responds to Brittany Maynard | Diocese of Raleigh

 

Another good article.

Right and wrong are not subjective. Let's say her decision (A) is more 'right' than a decision (B) for someone else. The only way you can measure the "rightness" of these decisions would be to compare them to something else, to some standard of choices [what I call morality].

I don't feel life is as black and white as you would like it to be...

I don't feel life is as black and white as you would like it to be...

 

If its not black and white then I can literally do anything I want and justify it by saying in my terms of morality its okay. Also consider this:

 

Why is it that both Christians and atheists, liberals and conservatives, males and females, literally any pair of opposite groups, would agree that Hitler committing genocide was wrong?

 

There has to be some standard morality, or behavior code, and social etiquette (whatever one wants to call it) that everyone in every society, country and time in history knows.