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

[Natalia]

Posted by Pris (here)

Posted by Amethyst (here)
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/britta...l-brain-cancer

[Atlas]

Posted by Bob (here)
she took the pills anyway

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

[Frank V]

Posted by Bob (here)
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]

Posted by Atlas (here)

Posted by Bob (here)
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.

Posted by elearah (here)
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]

Posted by elearah (here)
[...]
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]

Posted by kirolak (here)
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.