This 29 Year Old Woman Will End Her Own Life On Nov 1, 2014

[rgray222]

Twenty-nine-year-old Brittany Maynard is going to die on November 1. She knows that for certain, because it's the date she's chosen to end her life.

I am not advocating for or against this practice but I honestly do think it is a discussion that needs to be had across a broad spectrum of society. A case can be made in either direction on this issue. The only way to make sure we get it "as right as possible" is by using our collective wisdom and opening the discussion as wide as possible. (video)

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[Frederick Jackson]

My God how can this be, such a young and lovely person be contemplating such a thing, it is truly hard for me to fathom what problems, what depression or desperation or bleak outlook on life and the world might lead her to such a decision? I pray something changes her mind, perhaps our prayers and good wishes! She has mine!

[Orph]

Did you watch the video? She is terminal ill with brain cancer. She simply wants to die one her time, rather than wait for the cancer to ravage her body and take it when the cancer decides.

[ginnyk]

I completely agree with and support Brittany. My husband lived for about 2 months after his brain surgery was diagnosed as glioblastoma. Simply put, that means waiting for the cancer to keep disabling parts of the brain until it kills the patient. In the meantime, anything can be affected. Speech, memory, muscle control, bladder and bowel control, eyesight, seizures - the list goes on to a new nightmare each day. It was horrible to watch. I can't begin to imagine what it felt like for him to experience it,

We were blessed to have a wonderful Hospice team who was able to manage his symptoms with a lot of morphine and tender care. But I know he would have gladly shortened that time if it had been possible for him.

After watching what he went through, I can say for sure that if I am ever faced that or something similar, I would go to Washington state where my daughter lives and do the very same thing she plans.

Brittany, my thoughts and prayers are with you.

[Dennis Leahy]

Cannabis oil has had AMAZING results against glioblastoma. If someone tries a full "Rick Simpson protocol" (at least 30 days, preferably 60) on ANY cancer, and it doesn't cure it or reduce it drastically, then someone might consider drastic measures to prevent the painful part of the journey to death.

I hope someone gets this message to Brittany:

Brittany,


do an internet search on the two words glioma cannabis
read the scientific papers and anecdotal accounts (the drug companies do not test whole cannabis oil - they cannot patent it - so all human trial evidence is anecdotal)
fly to Colorado
get enough cannabis to make oil
make oil
take oil
live, laugh, and love for a long time


Seriously, girl, you gotta give it a shot. Did you know the human body has an "endocannabinoid" system that is considered as a regulatory system of regulatory systems? Our bodies make cannabinoids! We could not live without them. Adding EXTRA cannabinoids from cannabis will assist your body's normal process of healing. "Assist" is not a strong enough word - you can be cured. What do you have to lose if you try?

Dennis

Dennis

[Atlas]

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To expand the death-with-dignity option to all


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The video says that she was diagnosed in January 2014 "after years of suffering" but Brittany says that she first experienced headaches after getting married in September 2012 (see my post above) which leaves her with 16 months of suffering maximum, not years. Fishy.

[truth4me]

Did you watch the video? She is terminal ill with brain cancer. She simply wants to die one her time, rather than wait for the cancer to ravage her body and take it when the cancer decides. I for one cannot judge her. Unless your in her shoes you just
don't know what you would do....

[Pam]

The irony here is that in many cases, due to medical intervention people can live to experience stages of disease processes that they might not have 50 years ago. I think each individual should be able to decide when they have had enough suffering. Like she said in the video, just knowing that she has the medication is comforting to her. Some people never use it, but they can rest easier knowing that they have it if they need it. I am actually relieved that I live in Washington state so that I have that option available if I need it in the future.

I think that the discussion of dying with dignity has been muddied by religious convictions. As a nurse, I have encountered a lot of patients that continued life sustaining treatments even though they wished to die for fear of going to hell. They believed that stopping a treatment or not accepting a life sustaining treatment was the same as suicide.Certainly, ingesting medication to end life would be considered even more like suicide. Sometimes patients are guilted into "not giving up" by relatives or loved ones. So, there really is no easy answer to this dilemma.

Another issue that I have not seen addressed very often is the cost of end of life treatment. Resorting to dramatic interventions to extend life for a month or two on a terminal patient is surprisingly common. The expense is outrageous. All a patient has to say is " do everything you can to keep me alive" and in most cases they will be obliged. There is a huge amount of money to be made doing this. In fact, that is when the most money is forked out for medical care. How much better, it seems to me, to die peacefully, with loved ones around in a comforting setting than to be hooked up to machinery and IV lines in a hospital setting. Hospice has made huge inroads to alter perceptions, but there is still a long way to go.

Changing topics here, I do think it is sad that she may not have examined all options available. There are alternative treatments that have been very promising for aggressive brain cancers,

[dim]

What will happen at the 1st of Nov is that she will realize that she can't die.

[Peace of Mind]

Who ever said death was a bad thing? We were all born to die. Going through life fearing the inevitable will make you weak and useless. You'll never live up to your full potential when your mind is clouded with panic and confusion.

Peace

[RunningDeer]

16 months of suffering maximum, not years. Fishy.

With respect to this part only and someone that use to experience migraines, here’s my take:

A two to three day migraine of the endless pain, the twisted stomach muscles from vomiting, and the unknown of how long…well that one bout alone feels like eternity. So 16 months of suffering IS a lifetime.

That said, I understand where you are going.

RunningDeer <3

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Poor girl. I dont believe in terminal illness, theres a chance for recovery! Stick around awhile!

[chancy]

Hello Everyone:

I cannot walk in this ladies shoes BUT I have walked along side my mother's shoes. She had over 50 major operations in her life and was in the hospital for 46 years of her life. She was in a full body cast for 2 years of her life. She finished school with honors flat on her back in a hospital. She became a teacher by studying on her back in a hospital bed without being able to leave the bed. Without going into the long story she was diagnosed with breat cancer 2 times and got through it. I have seen my mother plead with God to take her because the pain was so intense. I have seen this so many times that it became normal.

After ALL THIS PAIN AND SUFFERING you could NEVER find a person that did so much good in the world and left the world a BETTER PLACE than my mother because she NEVER COMPLAINED once in 86 years and NEVER GAVE UP ONCE in 86 years.

She gave everyone including myself hope and brought happiness to everyone she met. NEVER did she GIVE UP! Should I say this again....SHE NEVER GAVE UP!

It's entirely a person choice to give up BUT I say everyone should NEVER GIVE UP! You never know how your life and helping people will influence this life! My mother saved more people than we all will ever know because of her attitude, courage, repect of life and helping everyone.

I have seen her too sick to eat but helping the next person in the same room as her eat because NO ONE IN THE HOSPITAL STAFF would help this person sick to eat. ( I guess they thought starving the person would be the best way to let the person die )

When I see people give up I am saddened to the core of my spirit! I say it's their choice BUT they are leaving this world not a better place!

NO ONE can judge but I have see beauty and love in a godly form with all the pain and suffering in my mother's elegant life.

To see someone quit is simply not human......

chancy

[rgray222]

Chancy
The thanks buttons seems hardly appropriate. The souls that have experienced great hardships and joy in their lives are usually the ones that understand that life is a gift. They are the ones that have a right to be negative and bitter but they are also the ones that are (for the most part) the most positive. Many such people find fulfillment in helping others. When you pass close to death you understand that our time,on this earth, in this life is as short as a flicker in a flame!


Hello Everyone:

I cannot walk in this ladies shoes BUT I have walked along side my mother's shoes. She had over 50 major operations in her life and was in the hospital for 46 years of her life. She was in a full body cast for 2 years of her life. She finished school with honors flat on her back in a hospital. She became a teacher by studying on her back in a hospital bed without being able to leave the bed. Without going into the long story she was diagnosed with breat cancer 2 times and got through it. I have seen my mother plead with God to take her because the pain was so intense. I have seen this so many times that it became normal.

After ALL THIS PAIN AND SUFFERING you could NEVER find a person that did so much good in the world and left the world a BETTER PLACE than my mother because she NEVER COMPLAINED once in 86 years and NEVER GAVE UP ONCE in 86 years.

She gave everyone including myself hope and brought happiness to everyone she met. NEVER did she GIVE UP! Should I say this again....SHE NEVER GAVE UP!

It's entirely a person choice to give up BUT I say everyone should NEVER GIVE UP! You never know how your life and helping people will influence this life! My mother saved more people than we all will ever know because of her attitude, courage, repect of life and helping everyone.

I have seen her too sick to eat but helping the next person in the same room as her eat because NO ONE IN THE HOSPITAL STAFF would help this person sick to eat. ( I guess they thought starving the person would be the best way to let the person die )

When I see people give up I am saddened to the core of my spirit! I say it's their choice BUT they are leaving this world not a better place!

NO ONE can judge but I have see beauty and love in a godly form with all the pain and suffering in my mother's elegant life.

To see someone quit is simply not human......

chancy

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[Frederick Jackson]

Ah, I suspected it may have been something like brain cancer but hoping no. Understandable her brave decision in this case. It is not a happy way to go especially with all the pain and disfiguration involved with chemo treatments.

[Michael Moewes]

No one shall take his own life. this brings you into a roundabout where you have to do it over a 50,000 times again.( Teachings of the Buddha). This huge health problem is a Purification from bad Karma. My adopted Daughter has Mucoviscidosis. She just recoverd from a leathal bacteria, wich normaly kills people with this illness. but, as she's a great buddhist practitioner, (10 years old) and her faith to our enlightened Teacher made her recover from this. she was fighting for 2 months and was victorious. This bacteria is known to destroy the lunghs. but the bacteria only got about 2% of her lungs. So during these two months she dedicated herself to meditation and practice. not caring about what the doctors and the nurses in the hospital may think or say( living in Spain)And just yesterday I've received the call from my wife that She was save.
What I'd like to say is whatever the Karma, or some may call it destiny, brings up to you, accept and fight.
For myself, I'm just fighting again against some cancer. haven't told my family yet. but I'm winning. so there's no need to panic them. I do Graviola treatment and it's not very pleasant, but much better then chemo or radiation. the Cancer is just about 5mm and vanishing. at the beginning of the treatment it had the size of a golfball. 14 days gone and 95% reduction. I also drink water with sodium bicarbonate, wich has much better taste as the graviola. but I also never give up. neither does my daughter.
Stay healthy and enjoy life as it is very short.
Sarva Mangalam

[vilcabamba]

She needs to take oils, like coconut oil and essential oils like orange, rose and Thieves oil.
WHY??? Because the medical system is ridiculously stupid.
Many cancers these days are caused by polymers, silicone gels, goos from chemtrails that can be detoxified with oils.
The x-ray, MRI they use CANNOT decipher between cancer and just silicone goo that everyone is breathing in.
She should first try to detoxify her brain by taking in oils through inhalation by nebulizer and by taking a drop in water.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and she went and did vitamin C IVs and Vitamin B17 IVs and juicing. If she went the conventional route they would have killed her. But my mom is fine now 7 years later going all natural.

This girl is giving up without a fight. Instead of trying to cure herself she is throwing in the towel. The cabal must love this.

[Michael Moewes]

Hi there,
I just wanted to let you know. thanks to graviola and sodiom bicarbonate. I free of cancer again.
Stay healthy.


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[Carmody]

I figure that she can do as she feels she needs to do and listen to the people and messages that she feels she needs to. Her motion, her move, her understandings (evolving or otherwise)...whatever the case may be.

for the rest of us, involvement is suffering itself, so to move toward or away, is really up to us in what it means and is.

[Atlas]

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[RunningDeer]

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[Frank V]

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We love you, Paula. :hug:

[Bob]

I pointed out the anti-viral that works with brain cancers, and numerous other cancers the body is having to deal with - the AV is designed to get past the blood brain barrier and stop the virus. Others have pointed out the needed use of natural herbals which will reduce the pain. TO do the neurological holographic re-sequencing past the damaged area has been demonstrated over 16 years ago and can be done.. NO CHEMO NO RADIATION NO CUTTING

ALL of that is doable, workable.. suffering need not happen.. AND

I even sent the "exclusive" news services who have "her story", the editor, the reporters.. that data..

No reply, no attempt to reach Britanny.. communications CUT, apparently deliberately..

My feeling is the worth that the media is getting is more on the sensationalism; the drama is more important than actual solutions.. to be able to repair the damage and restore life quality.. is pushed to the bottom of the stack..

Pulling the plug definitely is the easy way out it seems.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brittany-maynard-dying-with-dignity-before-cancer-takes-her-life/

Britany said live, on camera she had hoped that someone would be able to reach her with a miracle cure, hoping for a miracle, instead we see the push, "jump, JUMP !" says a lot doesn't it.


"I don't want to die," Maynard said. "If anyone wants to hand me, like, a magical cure and save my life so that I can have children with my husband, you know, I will take them up on it."

[Frank V]

I pointed out the anti-viral that works with brain cancers, and numerous other cancers the body is having to deal with - the AV is designed to get past the blood brain barrier and stop the virus. Others have pointed out the needed use of natural herbals which will reduce the pain. TO do the neurological holographic re-sequencing past the damaged area has been demonstrated over 16 years ago and can be done.. NO CHEMO NO RADIATION NO CUTTING

Coincidentally, I briefly read about a new and experimental treatment, and I was thinking about Brittany as well. That someone should get the word out to her.



ALL of that is doable, workable.. suffering need not happen.. AND

I even sent the "exclusive" news services who have "her story", the editor, the reporters.. that data..

No reply, no attempt to reach Britanny.. communications CUT, apparently deliberately..

My feeling is the worth that the media is getting is more on the sensationalism; the drama is more important than actual solutions.. to be able to repair the damage and restore life quality.. is pushed to the bottom of the stack..

Pulling the plug definitely is the easy way out it seems.

I'm afraid we are going to have to be so cynical as to believe that, yes...



Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brittany-maynard-dying-with-dignity-before-cancer-takes-her-life/

Britany said live, on camera she had hoped that someone would be able to reach her with a miracle cure, hoping for a miracle, instead we see the push, "jump, JUMP !" says a lot doesn't it.


"I don't want to die," Maynard said. "If anyone wants to hand me, like, a magical cure and save my life so that I can have children with my husband, you know, I will take them up on it."

Let's hope someone does get the facts out to her before it's too late. Time is running out. Only 12 more days to go as I'm writing this... :-/

[Dennis Leahy]

She (or whoever is running a couple of farcebook pages for her) deletes and blocks anyone posting about cures. A FB friend of mine that is a medical cannabis legalization warrior has tried to get word to her, but she must have explicit instructions not to allow it. Sounds like she is a "dead man walking" and stubbornly will not deviate from her path to even examine the validity of alternative cures. (Again, cannabis has already cured "inoperable" gliomas in patients given up for dead by western medicine.)

I wish I could celebrate with her, to see her decision as a powerful step of taking sovereignty of her life and exercising her will, and I would do so if she had truly exhausted her options. She hasn't. There is no indication that she has tried massive doses of CBD or THC. She appears to be stubborn and resigned, and I cannot celebrate that. Like a jumper on a bridge that hasn't really figured out that she does have other options, this feels like fear-induced premeditated suicide and not just-in-time (before massive, intractable pain from a truly incurable condition) self euthanasia.

My wife went through breast cancer 15 years ago, and she and I were clueless to alternative cures. Boy, was I pissed off later when I found out what we should have tried first, rather than Big Pharma's chemotherapeutic agents and surgery. Pissed off that modern medicine and doctors are controlled by the multinational pharmaceutical giants. Brittany's husband is going to be so pissed off when he finally figures out that they really did not "try everything", especially they didn't try the most promising alternative therapy (cannabis oil, either high CBD or high THC.)

I will try to let this go, to let her go, but without exploring her options, she leaves behind a poor example that I hope others will not emulate. This feels very wrong to me.

Dennis

[Frank V]

She (or whoever is running a couple of farcebook pages for her) deletes and blocks anyone posting about cures. A FB friend of mine that is a medical cannabis legalization warrior has tried to get word to her, but she must have explicit instructions not to allow it.
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While it is not impossible that Brittany would be administering her Facebook page all by herself, I think it's probably more likely that someone in her entourage is doing that for her, and perhaps this person seeks to sacrifice Brittany in order to make a martyr out of her because of - as Bob put it a little higher up in the thread - sensationalism.

The ball is on the roll. Brittany is incurably ill and is going to end her life. So now she must stick to the agenda and do exactly that. Or so somebody out there believes. And this somebody may actually be someone far closer to her than she or we may suspect. People do crazy things when their mind is filled with sadness, including adopting a fatalist attitude. Whoever is blocking the advice from getting to Brittany is surrendering to a supposed "force greater than them", but unfortunately, they are using Brittany herself as the sacrificial lamb.

It is either way very, very sad that, with only 12 days left to the dark day, Brittany would not be receiving any more hope and advice, which she did clearly state that she was still open to.

[gripreaper]

Imagine that the solution did reach Brittany and she decided to try it and it cured her. What then? Now, the entire allopathic approach of cut, nuke and poison is exposed and the media, who has taken this on for its sensationalism, would find it rather difficult to keep it out of the public consciousness.

We can't have the pharmaceutical industry or the medical association proven wrong, now can we? Brittany is caught in their web and unfortunately cannot see any way out, while those in her entourage are steering the outcome. She has surrendered and its not fighting.

Sad but true that this is what our health system has come to.

[Bob]

Britanny has just announced she has changed her mind - says I WANNA LIVE.. won't end her life.


more HERE (http://www.lifenews.com/2014/10/30/brittany-maynard-wont-kill-herself-november-1-doesnt-seem-like-the-right-time-now/)

[Frank V]

Britanny has just announced she has changed her mind - says I WANNA LIVE.. won't end her life.


more HERE (http://www.lifenews.com/2014/10/30/brittany-maynard-wont-kill-herself-november-1-doesnt-seem-like-the-right-time-now/)

That is definitely good news, because I read about one or two weeks ago about a new stem cell therapy which is particularly beneficial to patients with the same kind of brain tumor as Brittany has. With a bit of luck, she can fully recover.

[Dennis Leahy]

Hey Brittany, if you want to live:

The cannabinoid "THC" has completely cured glioblastoma in other patients.

The cannabinoid "CBD" (which cannot get you high and is legal in all 50 states) stops seizures.

You have absolutely nothing to lose by trying.

[Carmody]

The trick is to get people to try the alternative cures while their body and capacity to recover is still strong, no as a last resort after all forms of chemo and radiation treatment. Treatments that kill ~ 19 out of 20 --- regardless. (in the 5 year + analysis)

Cancer is considered 'cured' if the person lives beyond 5 years....yet now we know (very recent study results) that sometimes even lung cancer can lurk in the body and lungs for 10-15-20 years, before going 'active'.

Regarding the impossibility of reaching someone on these subjects, I've dealt with it before, on multiple occasions, and my stomach for fighting that fight (after much analysis) is largely non-existent.

[thepainterdoug]

how very strange as approaching the date. no matter what, i wish peace of mind for all related.

[Atlas]

Britanny has just announced she has changed her mind - says I WANNA LIVE.. won't end her life.


more HERE (http://www.lifenews.com/2014/10/30/brittany-maynard-wont-kill-herself-november-1-doesnt-seem-like-the-right-time-now/)

LOL. Of course you won't believe me if I tell you that i knew that from the beginning.

You don't choose to die when you've been suffering for only 1 year else I would be dead myself since a long time.

Case closed, thanks for the news.

[Pris]

Britanny has just announced she has changed her mind - says I WANNA LIVE.. won't end her life.


more HERE (http://www.lifenews.com/2014/10/30/brittany-maynard-wont-kill-herself-november-1-doesnt-seem-like-the-right-time-now/)

Whatever she decides, it's up to her.

[Bob]

Well she took the pills anyway it appears and killed herself

"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!"

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[Natalia]

Maybe it was her time to go...maybe sometimes there is nothing that one can do to cure something like late stage brain cancer...

[Innocent Warrior]

I can understand Britanny's decision. My best friend had muscular dystrophe and took his own life too.

[Daozen]

Sad. Respect to everyone that reached out to her. Bob, Dennis, everyone...

[Pris]

Maybe it was her time to go...maybe sometimes there is nothing that one can do to cure something like late stage brain cancer...

My own feeling on this... everything happens exactly as it is supposed to... still, this makes me sad.

I have the instinct to prolong my life no matter what and try to cure whatever may be ailing me, although, sometimes I have to wonder why. Maybe I'll feel differently one day.

[Natalia]

Maybe it was her time to go...maybe sometimes there is nothing that one can do to cure something like late stage brain cancer...

My own feeling on this... everything happens exactly as it is supposed to... still, this makes me sad.

I have the instinct to prolong my life no matter what and try to cure whatever may be ailing me, although, sometimes I have to wonder why. Maybe I'll feel differently one day.

It is sad and at one point I was privately hoping that she would try cannabis oil and be cured (although I doubted it)...while also respecting her choice if it was the right one...I feel it was the right one as it has eased her extreme future suffering and she knew that she was going to die anyway...it gave her a sense of peace to go when she wanted to go and before all of the torture of what herself and her family would experience after...like she said in the article ""My glioblastoma is going to kill me and that's out of my control," she told PEOPLE last month. "I've discussed with many experts how I would die from it and it's a terrible, terrible way to die. So being able to choose to go with dignity is less terrifying."

"Maynard spent the last months of her life making the most of the time she had left. She traveled to Alaska, British Colombia and Yellowstone National Park with her loved ones and explored more local attractions like Olympic National Park in Washington." <3

http://www.people.com/article/brittany-maynard-died-terminal-brain-cancer

[Atlas]

she took the pills anyway

Just like that... I don't buy it.

[Frank V]

Well she took the pills anyway it appears and killed herself

"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!"

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This is very sad. Her reasons for ending her life are fully understandable, but it remains a sad situation nevertheless, because she was still very young, and after her message in which she announced the decision to postpone her death, I had expectations that she would have looked to alternative treatments, or even to the hope-raising research that has just been published about stem cell therapy.

May you rest in peace, Brittany, and may your loved ones find the strength to deal with your departure from these mortal realms.

[Bob]

she took the pills anyway

Just like that... I don't buy it.

I don't either - looking at her last news interview where she said want to live.. there was optimism.. Looking at her bye-bye statement, it was "be sure family to get ALL STATES to allow assisted suicide.." that jumped out at me reading that..

[Pam]

I think that she was reconsidering her options because she did not want to die, she has really enjoyed her life and was ever hopeful. She stated that after going to the Grand Canyon she had her worst seizure yet and the headaches were getting worse. She simply was not willing to endure the pain any longer.It is only natural that she should vacillate between wanting to end her pain and wanting to continue on. How can any of us judge her for not being willing to continue with the immense pain any longer? No one knows what they would do unless they were in the same situation, no one.

Bless this dear woman who loved her life and was courageous even to her death.

[elearah]

I don´t know, but something is very odd about this story.

--The pictures are too professional looking for a simple girl--even hiring a photographer, these are magazine quality.
--The fund. What does money have anything to do with this? And if she had lived, what would have happened with the money? they give it back?
--The age is also interesting. Most of the MK Ultra people that come out say the programming fails after 30 or if they smoke pot. And I remember Cathy O´Brien that 30 was her expiration date so to speak. She was in her late 20s?

If she really took her life because of this, RIP, my prays are with her. If it is a ripoff or a political stunt of sort (for example to encourage people with cancer to kill themselves instead of searching for natural cures?)... there are no words.

[Bob]

She was going to turn 30 very soon...

I suppose logically the conclusion could be carried out, in a while when "all states allow for doctor determined state of health" saying "yup terminal", ur a burden on the "system", time to pull ur plug.. Opening up that door saying states must allow this I think misses the "end game" behind allowing a doctor determine if you are "terminal". How is a person going to know except by some diagnosis by someone who now is in the spot over one's life?

If this girl was not told about the actual brain cancer solutions, but only told the "doctor" version.. did she really have a way to say with an informed decision that she really was in-charge of taking her own life when she wanted?

Seems to me, having seen this medical system in operation for 40 years now the push for "state/doctor" determination of a person's worth ($$$) feeder into the "system" verses how much load on the system ($$$$) - its not about a person's right to determine their own outcome but how much the STATE can control how much worth one is..

I don't like this situation one bit.



I don´t know, but something is very odd about this story.

--The pictures are too professional looking for a simple girl--even hiring a photographer, these are magazine quality.
--The fund. What does money have anything to do with this? And if she had lived, what would have happened with the money? they give it back?
--The age is also interesting. Most of the MK Ultra people that come out say the programming fails after 30 or if they smoke pot. And I remember Cathy O´Brien that 30 was her expiration date so to speak. She was in her late 20s?

If she really took her life because of this, RIP, my prays are with her. If it is a ripoff or a political stunt of sort (for example to encourage people with cancer to kill themselves instead of searching for natural cures?)... there are no words.

[Pris]

So... people are suggesting there may have been another agenda going here by nefarious individuals... where she may have been mind-controlled to help 'officially' usher in a new era of of being able to kill people more easily -- against their will, by mind-control, and/or by providing misinformation/lack of information (deliberately or otherwise) about an illness so people make uninformed decisions about life and death.

After all, how many times have we heard something is 'terminal' only to have people walking around who've cured themselves?

[Camilo]

R.I.P Brittany. Your life, your right, your decision.

[T Smith]

In my own reality she has merely announced her death on facebook (after she realized she had painted herself in a corner; she could never explore the cures Dennis and others were screaming from the roof tops after she so foolishly went public)... as she hadn't really thought this through (nor had awakened to an entire paradigm utterly unknown to her just weeks before) new opportunities were much too dangerous to pursue and would never be allowed to light the world from which she had come. Any recovery would be met by a quick and contrived demise disguised as a noble and valiant submission to the disease itself. But in a brilliant move outwitting the world entire and even the cunning designs of Big Pharma itself, she instead staged her own death and is now taking cannabis and en route to a full (and quiet) recovery, outside the prying eyes of the masses.... None would be the wiser, and the murderous designs of the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex would alas be safe from challenge.

Of course, this is just my own reality, a fantasy... I wish her well wherever she is, in this world or elsewhere.

[Frank V]

[...]
The pictures are too professional looking for a simple girl--even hiring a photographer, these are magazine quality.
[...]


Some of the early pictures were taken at her wedding, so those would have been done by a professional, and who knows, given that she was clearly a natural beauty, maybe she did a bit of modelling on the side when she was younger? Either way, her body had obviously undergone significant changes over the few years of her illness, which is consistent with the standard pharmaceutical treatment. She was still very beautiful in her last pictures, but it was very clear that there was something wrong with her, because she had picked up a lot of weight, and given that she was only 29, it must have all happened within a very short time span.

I had a woman in my family - technically, she was my mother's cousin, but she was 15 years younger than my mom and to me she was more like my elder sister - who died from a brain tumor as well, at age 39. This woman too was a natural beauty, and I remember how she had gained so much weight because of the chemotherapy that she didn't fit into any of her clothes anymore.

She also lost all of her hair, but that may have been due to the radiotherapy - she had surgery but they couldn't remove all of the tumor surgically as it would have caused her to be blind, so they decided to irradiate her to kill off the last bit of the tumor (which failed). It was discovered that she had a brain tumor when I was only 20 years old and still in college, because I remember my mom carefully trying to break the news to me when I came home from college for the weekend. And it was only three years later that she died, while our family was on summer vacation at the coast.

Whatever the truth is behind Brittany's story, I'm convinced that her disease was real.

[kirolak]

I am sorry to say this but most of these responses are from a very materialistic standpoint, even the RIP wishes. WHY would anyone want to rest in peace? That is entirely body-based, wrt the dead, unmoving shell. . . For goodness sake, surely one could wish her joyous continuance? Or a fulfilling second leg of her journey? There is NO "sin" in suicide, it is a lifestyle choice like any other. Why does death seem to be this terrible, dark looming nothing? The lessons continue, with or without a body.

[Pris]

I am sorry to say this but most of these responses are from a very materialistic standpoint, even the RIP wishes. WHY would anyone want to rest in peace? That is entirely body-based, wrt the dead, unmoving shell. . . For goodness sake, surely one could wish her joyous continuance? Or a fulfilling second leg of her journey? There is NO "sin" in suicide, it is a lifestyle choice like any other. Why does death seem to be this terrible, dark looming nothing? The lessons continue, with or without a body.

Like you, I do not see death as 'this terrible, dark looming nothing'. And, I think many people here, including me, would agree with you that lessons (learning, growing, discovering) continue with, or without, a body.

I like the idea of us wishing those who have 'died' joyous continuance. Many different cultures consider the passing over of a loved one a time to celebrate.