Brittany Maynard’s death: Her last words never mentioned God or eternity? [View all]

[beam me up scottie]

I found this site when I was chasing links about TN's Amendment 1, it has a weird feature where you can see recent comments in a panel on the left, so I clicked on one and found this speculation about Brittany's death:

What do we know about Brittany Maynard’s death?
We can’t be certain

Did Brittany Maynard die freely? This is the question that must be asked after the attractive 29-year-old woman with a brain tumour announced earlier in the week that she would probably postpone the assisted suicide she had scheduled for Saturday, November 1.

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It could be the opening for a Kay Scarpetta novel. How can anyone be sure now that Brittany died freely? How can anyone be sure that Compassion & Choices did not apply moral pressure on her to fulfil her commitment and not to disappoint the wonderful people who had made her famous?
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Laws must be changed, in other words, to support absolute autonomy. But if this is the case, isn’t it discriminatory to restrict this to the terminally ill? Why not lovelorn teenagers or impecunious grandmothers? It’s a blindingly obvious objection which is not refuted in Brittany’s video.

Ironically, the same tear-soaked argument was used by the Nazis to persuade Germans to support assisted suicide. Brittany’s beautiful wedding photos, her artfully scripted message, the lachrymose piano chords, her family’s words of love and support — they all reminded me of a competent 1941 German melodrama called Ich Klage An (I Accuse). The young wife of a doctor begs for release before she becomes “deaf, blind, idiotic”; the family doctor refuses; her husband obliges. In a final speech before a jury her grieving husband accuses the law of being inhumane.

http://cal-catholic.com/?p=16025

What's even worse are some of the comments below:

Micky says:
November 3, 2014 at 1:10 pm

What do we know about Brittany ? – That she could have stayed home in CA and committed suicide there, instead of moving to Oregon.
An overdose of pain medication works anywhere in the world.
No need to “legalize” anything.
Her last words never mentioned God or eternity.

Her attempt to get public sympathy may add to the ‘legalization’ of many other deaths,.

Linda Maria says:
November 4, 2014 at 2:53 am

What a terrible tragedy! Young people of today, are no longer brought up with faith in God, nor Christian morality– and the necessity of always following a moral conscience, in decisions! Ultimately, we must answer to God! Our decisions are NEVER a careless “choice,” for our self-centered whims! Suicide is a mortal sin– unthinkable! And look what Christ, our Savior, went through in His Passion and death, for our eternal Salvation! With a solid Faith in Him– we can get through what we must, while on earth! I have seen older people lose their minds to dementia and to Alzheimer’s. They too, must accept the pain of life, which is all in Gods hands, along with their beloved family members! It is a big responsibility! America must return to God! And this poor young woman’s soul, is in need of many prayers! Assisted suicide must STOP!!

They must "accept the pain of life".

Wow, how Mother Teresa of her.


All kinds of crazy there, and some sick motherfuckers.