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Update on Brittany Maynard

Update on Brittany Maynard

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by: mm4731 Active Indicator LED Icon 7 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 3:05pm  
The story of Brittany Maynard swept social media earlier this month. The terminally ill woman made a public decision to end her own life after she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer
 
Maynard was diagnosed in April with grade-4 glioblastoma and was given six months to live. After her diagnosis, she moved from San Francisco to Oregon where doctors can prescribe life-ending drugs to the dying. The 29-year-old said at the time that she does not want to die but since it appears she will, she wants to die on her own terms.
 
When the 29-year-old posted her plans to social media, she became an advocate for the "death with dignity" movement, which advocates for terminally ill people to die on their own terms.On Thursday, she released a video saying she has made the decision not to end her life on November 1, as was originally planned. In the video, she says she has yet to decide on the date to end her life and is waiting to see how her symptoms progress.
 
"I still laugh and smile with my family and friends and it doesn't seem like the right time, right now," she said in the video. "But it will come because I feel myself getting sicker. It's happening each week.
 
Maynard said she still gets out with her family and still walks her dogs, two things that she says brings her the greatest feelings of health.
 
The new video comes just a few days after telling People magazine that she is firm in her decision.
 
VIDEO: Watch her emotional update by clicking play. Fox 2 app users, click here.
 
Since becoming ill, Maynard has travelled to Yellowstone National Park and to Alaska. In a video, Maynard said she wanted to visit Grand Canyon before her death.
 
She posted photos of her visit to the Grand Canyon on the Compassion & Choices website.
 
In one photo she poses with her parents in front of the great rock formations. In another, she kisses her husband as they stand on the canyon's rim. She's wearing a pink sweater and sunglasses, and is smiling.
 
On Compassion & Choices' website, Maynard wrote the trip was sponsored by "Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true."
 
Maynard wrote that the morning after the trip she had her "worst seizure thus far," and her speech was paralyzed for a long time after she regained consciousness.
 
Maynard takes prescription drugs to reduce the swelling in her brain and to minimize seizures, but the drugs have side effects that include weight gain and swelling of the face
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daisy girl Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 5:34pm  
I think she's being realistic about life and death.
 
The majority of my family members have died of some form of cancer.
The reality is I too one day may be told I too have cancer.
I will not let that haunt me nor hinder me in my choices.
 
For my dh it's heart disease that runs through the genes.
 
We have had serious conversations and I refuse to go through what I have watch since I was 11. Nor do I want my husband to be straddled with medical bills in the millions.
I told him if I go first I expect him to find someone and truly live the rest of his days. How awful to get a monthly reminder of what you had no control over. The other woman having the constant reminder of the dead wife.
 
If it were me I would sit my family down and say hey, I'm not checking out yet, but when life comes without quality, I'm checkin out.
And yes we would take a world win tour.
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Palm Springs Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 8:20pm  
Please continue praying for Brittany and Dan. Emoticon
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sandman Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 9:02pm  
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
 
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
 
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
 
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
 
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
 
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
 
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May the Lord have mercy on those who take on their own hands the decision of meting Him sooner than what He intended... may He open the door of His house and let them dwell in it.
 
I pray for that young lady... may the Lord give her the strength to deal with her pain and that she puts her life and soul at His caring... let Him say when her time has come.
 
God is great... God is good! Amen!
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+1 Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 9:06pm  
God bless her.
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lynnsgirl Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 9:11pm  
Question and nothing more....
 
If you're a believer and you believe in heaven and hell do you think you go to Heaven if you commit suicide? I have often pondered this thought.
 
In life if we sin we ask for forgiveness; however, if you take your own life and know or believe it's wrong do you go to heaven?
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Palm Springs Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 9:15pm  
@lynnsgirl: We won't know until it's our time...it's up to HIM really.
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+1 Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 9:15pm  
I think God has mercy for the weak and ill.
 
No one really knows.
 
Faith, Hope and Love.
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sandman Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 9:20pm  
@lynnsgirl
 
I don't know if there is a Heaven and Hell... to me that is irrelevant. What is important is believing in God... He works in ways we are incapable of understanding.
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Palm Springs Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 9:20pm  
I'd like to think the same, +1. She is not taking this lightly and unfortunately, she's become a media icon, which is not what she had planned.
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Fairlane67 Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 9:20pm  
Question and nothing more....
 
If you're a believer and you believe in heaven and hell do you think you go to Heaven if you commit suicide? I have often pondered this thought.
 
In life if we sin we ask for forgiveness; however, if you take your own life and know or believe it's wrong do you go to heaven?
 
@lynnsgirl:
 
God is the perfect judge. Just think if a judge in a court of law, knew all details 100%, knew who was lying and telling the truth...and knew all facts no matter how they were skewed. That would be our Lord. He knows our heart and knows whether we are true believers or just readers, knows whether our brains are sick or just self absorbed....but most importantly, has paid the price for our sins either way.
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daisy girl Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 9 years ago   Oct 30, '14 9:25pm  
Question and nothing more....
 
If you're a believer and you believe in heaven and hell do you think you go to Heaven if you commit suicide? I have often pondered this thought.
 
In life if we sin we ask for forgiveness; however, if you take your own life and know or believe it's wrong do you go to heaven?
 
@lynnsgirl:
 
That's a very interesting question. I often heard growing up if you commit suicide of any kind you go to hell. But God is supposed to be loving and forgiving.
When I was 10 I did not know my grandma had cancer. In the 60's kids weren't for old things like that. When we stopped going to church on Sundays, she would say to me, you don't have to ho to God's house to talk to him. Any quiet place will do. She passed a year later and I've been told many times my guardian Angels were my grandmothers.
 
That give me piece as they were both strong women coming to this country on boats through Ellis Island as young girls.
 
However my grandfather went to his grave with secrets and dirt on his hands. I often wonder if he has been granted forgiveness. It died as an old man at 96.
My grandma was 57.
 
I myself have taken to my Irish roots and practice a wicca religion. We don't believe in satan. Or as the teachings go.
so where does this true evil come from?
 
As for taking your life before God's time. With all the suffering and non quality of life I witnessed, I often wonder why we must suffer before death.
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