29 Year Old With Brain Cancer, Chooses to Die With Dignity on November 1, 2014

I think she has decided she still has a little more time with her family. And if that is so, I am very glad for her. She chose the Nov. 1 date as an arbitrary one, and went public to get a serious discussion started as to right to die issues. I think it's a good thing that people are talking about it and I hope we can get to the point where everyone has the same access to assistance that people in Oregon do. I think it is high time we started talking about the reality of death and quit acting like it is some kind of mystical, hush-hush thing that we talk about in euphemisms like "passed away" and "went home to be with the Lord." It is death, and it's not very pretty, and can be downright horrific, to say the least.

She certainly has no obligation to anyone to carry out her wishes of a dignified death on Nov. 1. She has no obligation to make her death public, and she has no obligation to anyone not to change her mind. I, for one, am very glad for her that she feels she has a little more time to be with friends and family.
 

I'm glad that her suffering is over.

As to the Winnipeg lady, she shouldn't have had to round up her family at great expense to go to Zurich! That's offensive that my government forces a sick and dying woman to travel like that to find relief. By golly, this calls for a letter to my MP today!
 
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