Brittany Maynard Real Life Story
Who's ready to die, to say goodbye to the loved ones, to family and friends. I have never thought about what I could do if you knew that I would die on a specific day. How do I say goodbye to the world. Well that's what happened to Brittany Maynard a young 29 year old diagnosed with terminal brain cancer number 4. With only a year of married and a whole life ahead Brittany toke the most difficult decision of his life, she choses to “Death with dignity”.
Death-with-dignity laws are voluntary. An eligible person can request the prescription, but no doctor is obligated to provide it. Once a prescription is written, the patient chooses when and whether to fill it – or take it. Most people never take it. Simply having the choice provides people a sense of peace in the face of uncertainty and fear that their suffering might be unbearable. It allows people the freedom to die in control, with dignity.
Brittany thinks that Death with dignity is an option every person deserves, to reduce suffering at the end of life and die in comfort and control, with dignity. It has been ruled a constitutionally protected right in state and federal courts. Death-with-dignity or aid in dying is a medical practice in which a terminally ill and mentally competent adult requests, and a doctor prescribes, a life-ending medication the person self-administers. However it is a law that it is only valid in the state of Oregon, so She moved to Oregon to pass away in a little yellow house she picked out in the beautiful city of Portland; she wished that her home State of California had also been able to provide terminally ill patients with the same choice.
Brittany decided to die on November 2nd 2014.
"Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love. Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me … but would have taken so much more," she wrote on Facebook. "The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type … Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!"
I have mixed feelings about this. As a health care provider i can understand the decision she made but as a mother, sister or daughter i can not understand or handle the pain one endorse in this situations.
ReplyDeleteHi Dora! I feel the same way about this situation. I don't believe I would have the gut to do it.
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