The death of Brittany Maynard

I am so saddened and horrified by the death of Brittany Maynard.  I truly believe that she was exploited by the right to die people.  My feelings on this are personal, I watched with my husband , our best friend of over thirty years die of the same thing that Brittany had.
But because of watching how our dear friend died, I know for a fact that someone gave that poor girl false information.  Someone, I believe the right to die people, filled her head with scenes of her end that were untrue, that were lies to further their agenda.
I will give you a brief rundown of the death of our best friend.
S was in the prime of his life, 2 young teens, one older son graduating collage.  He and his wife were jogging one day, when S got winded, and started talking to his wife in gibberish.  She immediately took S to the hospital and within a day they were given a death sentence for S.  He had the worst type of glioblastoma possible, with no hope of cure, and they gave him very little time.  Six months.  They gave him a death sentence, but they DID NOT tell him he was going to die a horrible death.  They gave him treatment options that may give him more time, and he wanted that time, he wanted to make memories with his children, he wanted to get everything in order for his wife, so that when the time came he could die in peace knowing he did all he could to ease his families suffering when he was gone.  They took time, they made memories, wonderful memories.  He watched his daughter go to her first formal dance, and preform on the stage in our city, a big stage, with a Broadway troupe.  He watched his son as he became better and better at the sport he loved, hockey.  S's son was going to make his dad proud, and he went out and played the best hockey of his young life, so good in fact, that the pro's started scouting him with in a month of his fathers passing.  At 15.  A freshman in high school.  His wife and he had a romantic getaway.  Was S in pain?  Some, but the truth of the matter is that brain cancer is NOT that painful.  The brain does not feel pain the way the rest of the body does.  Yes, S was heavily medicated against seizures, and yes, he lost his words.  But he was living every minute God gave him.
When I heard Brittany Maynard say that she was told she was going to die with terrible awful pain, by a Dr. I KNEW no Doctor told her that.  Not one Doctor would tell a patient that they were going to die a horrible death, because first brain cancer is not as  painful as other cancers, and second, hospice exists so that you do not have pain at the end. I digress, let me finish S's story.

At one year, we celebrated with champagne and blueberry pie the fact that the Dr's were wrong, and S not only was alive, but he was enjoying his time with his family.
S did start to fail at sixteen months.  He was still up with his family, still met his children at the door after school, but at that point he needed someone to be with him, to make sure he did not have a seizure or fall.  We all volunteered, and I was there on Wed, my day to hang out with S and help out.  When I got there, I knew.  S was in the process, in the final process of dying.  I called his wife, told her that it was time to call hospice. She knew, but was having such a hard time accepting the fact that the time was coming to an end, that she could not face it.  But S did not want to die at home, because of his children.  So the decision was made that he would enter hospice that evening when a room became ready.  S walked to the car with us all around him.  S walked into hospice. In the three days that followed he said a final goodbye to his children, told them he loved them, hugged them, loved them.
S slowly lost consciousness, did he have pain?  Not much, they gave him morphine.  Did he have anxiety?  Surprisingly no, he had accepted what would happen.  They gave him Valium to help keep him relaxed. On the third day, his wife was in his bed and told him she would be ok.  That he had done such a good job of preparing them, that they would be ok.  She told him he was the love of her life, that he had made life worth living.  Then she told him it was ok to go.
S died five minutes after that.
I believe that Brittany Maynard was exploited by the right to die people.  Not one Doctor would have told her what she said, that she would be in agony.  But the right to die people would have told her that.  It would scare a young woman who had not lived enough years to gain the wisdom to make this decision.  I was haunted in her interviews that she was focusing on the fact that medicine had made her gain weight, she was "horrified" by the way she looked!  That broke my heart.  Those words spoke of a young woman who was not making a decision based on wisdom, but on fear.
Fear of looking bad, fear of loosing control.
I do not believe she was a Christian, she never said a word about Gods comfort.  My heart aches for her.  I have witnessed the death she may have had, and she could have had so much more time to spend with her family, preparing them, giving them memories that they could hang on to.
This death opens a door that we as a society should not be opening.
My heart hurts for the days that Brittany threw away.
Peace and Blessings
LTW