• A 29-year-old woman has chosen the 1st of November, 2014 as the day she will die.
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[QUOTE][IMG]https://localtvwdaf.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/maynardb.jpg[/IMG] A 29-year-old woman has chosen Nov. 1, 2014 as the day she will die — two days after her husband’s birthday. Brittany Maynard was a vibrant young woman. She has run several half marathons, spent a year traveling through Southeast Asia and once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, East Africa. On Jan. 1, 2014 her world changed when she was diagnosed with grade II astrocytoma, a severe brain tumor. Doctors predicted she had 10 years to live. Despite having surgery, her prognosis took a dramatic turn for the worse a few months later. The cancer had progressed to glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the deadliest form of brain cancer. Maynard has chosen to use medicine prescribed by her doctor to end her life on Nov. 1 so that she may die with dignity, she said. She’s adamant that her decision is not suicide. “There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die,” “I want to live. I wish there was a cure for my disease but there’s not.” Source: [url]http://fox4kc.com/2014/10/07/woman-29-chooses-to-end-her-life-two-days-after-husbands-birthday/[/url][/QUOTE] Stories like these make me more supportive of having euthanasia as an option for those who suffer severe chronic or terminal illnesses/diseases.
It's really sad for me to think that while I'm starting a new life (I'm moving into a new town with a new job that exact day), hers is ending. It may be a distant dream but I can't wait for the day we can look at medical issues like these and say "man, we're glad that's over"
[quote]“There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die,” “I want to live. I wish there was a cure for my disease but there’s not.”[/quote] This is absolutely heartbreaking. I feel so horrible for this girl, I hope her death brings her peace at least.
[QUOTE=Bradyns;46179540]Stories like these make me more supportive of having euthanasia as an option for those who suffer severe chronic or terminal illnesses/diseases.[/QUOTE] Understandable. Brain tumors are horrible and literally fuck with the fabric that defines you and how you operate. Wanting to at least control one aspect of your life - your death, while you still have the cognitive resources to do so is understandable
Great honor for those who perform seppuku [highlight](User was banned for this post ("dumb post" - dai))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Gprimeisback;46179611]Great honor for those who perform seppuku[/QUOTE] The whole point of seppuku is to die when you don't have honor anymore. This is not seppuku, just a sensible choice.
Here in the state of Oregon we do have options like that to give people what is called "Assisted Suicide". There are only a handful of states that have this option. It's surprising to me that there are not more places in the states that this is legal.
[QUOTE=Gprimeisback;46179611]Great honor for those who perform seppuku[/QUOTE] There's always gotta be someone who fails at a joke every other thread.
[QUOTE=wauterboi;46179700]There's always gotta be someone who fails at a joke every other thread.[/QUOTE] sudoku*
Brain tumors are some of the scariest things to me. They are one of those things that is just pure unadulterated horror.
If you have netflix I would recommend to watch How To Die In Oregon. It was one of the most powerful and emotional documentaries I have ever seen. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-525sCzhE[/media]
Came into thread thinking it was gonna be some annoying attention whore, but now I just feel a bit sad.
[QUOTE=Gprimeisback;46179611]Great honor for those who perform seppuku[/QUOTE] You're fucked in the head.
My dad has brain cancer. Cancer just sucks. Sucks to hear this though, if someone told me I had 10 years than it was shortened to less than a year I'd probably just end it there too.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;46179717]Brain tumors are some of the scariest things to me. They are one of those things that is just pure unadulterated horror.[/QUOTE] That and brain aneurysms are scary as shit. It's going to be weird knowing that this lady passes one day before my birthday.
I read a quote recently that went sort of like: "Each person's life is like a little universe, impossibly full of unique things. The death of another is like a little universe dying out, distinguished forever." It's horrible that it has to end for her this way. :(
I hope to see a day where most Countries in the world allow for Euthanasia with strict conditions and procedures By strict I mean the patient must be assessed by 3 doctors along with verification that they're in a healthy state of mind, go through a 7 day cooling off period just in case they may reconsider their choices and then get injected with an overdose of some sort of medicine with their family and friends by their side until they share their last breath. It's a pretty solid system, the Northern Territory in Australia had a system just like what I said above and it worked well for the 2 years that it was legal. Most who are against Euthanasia say that's not enough to guarantee a wrongful procedure but in my mind I think it's the most fail proof system out there.
It pisses me of sometimes when most of our top medical professionals have a hard time finding cures for people suffering from all shorts of diseases, cancer, and other things... mostly because money is part of the reason why these people can't produce a cure no matter how many people are suffering from anything that is lethal. I wish there was a way to remove money out of the equations and a whole dedicated amount of teams researching all different types of cures for thousands of unvaccinated diseases including ebola and cancer, so that we save bunch of lives over and over again till we finally find a way to make disease disappear forever...
I feel bad for the husband. That sucks.
[QUOTE=mr hobo;46179756]If you have netflix I would recommend to watch How To Die In Oregon. It was one of the most powerful and emotional documentaries I have ever seen. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-525sCzhE[/media][/QUOTE] Louis Theroux's documentary "Edge of Life" too.
That sucks majorly. What does she mean it's not suicide though? Because it certainly is, even if she has will to live, right?
One of my closest friends is in a similar situation, he has heart and brain problems and recently was given 10 years to live, he's in his early 20s, so this story hits a bit close to home. He's been very tempted to commit suicide, euthanasia is not possible/legal where we live. All we can hope for is even more advancements in medical treatment and technology in the near future, as soon as possible. It's extremely upsetting we have to see people pass on this way, but hopefully in future, no one or only a very small few will have to face life-threatening and terminal illnesses.
I've been told I'll be on a dialysis machine practically 24/7 before I'm 40 due to an uncurable kidney disease. After watching my mother go through the same ordeal, it's a tragedy I'd rather not endure - monthly surgeries, constant sickness, immobility... she's been begging doctors to allow her to die for the past 10 years but they cannot do it. There's no improvement from here on out, but nobody understands that - they want everyone to follow their warped worldview even if it means they die a slow death after decades of practical torture. If they were faced with the same terminal diseases that millions of Americans are faced with, they'd probably change their minds in a real fucking hurry.
I wonder why she wouldn't wait a bit longer....is it already that bad? Not to say cancer isn't bad to start with but I'd think I'd wait as long as I could. It also creepy as hell when the song matches up with the thread you're reading. This time its "Time" by Alan Parsons Project
how about [IMG]https://localtvwdaf.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/maynardb.jpg[/IMG] + [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1429472"][IMG]http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5796268-3x2-340x227.jpg[/IMG][/URL] ? [sp]since she has brain tumor and this berry fights off brain cancer cells[/sp]
The cancer is prob. too harsh at this stage.
[QUOTE=cucumber;46181826]how about [IMG]https://localtvwdaf.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/maynardb.jpg[/IMG] + [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1429472"][IMG]http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5796268-3x2-340x227.jpg[/IMG][/URL] ? [sp]since she has brain tumor and this berry fights off brain cancer cells[/sp][/QUOTE] If this turns out to be effective against those types of tumors then I'd go full bore on it. But the real questions remains, what happens after those tumor cells are gone? What if some of her frontal lobe cells are cancerous, would she loose part of what makes her [I]her[/I]? Would someone be willing to live not as themselves or die knowing they've kept what makes them them. I'm not putting any bias on it, its something that each person would have to answer themselves.
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