I have been extremely busy this week but I found it of great importance to weigh in on the Brittany Maynard suicide case. Brittany Maynard was a 29 year old woman that was desperate for an escape from the pain which led her to choose assisted suicide. I would like to make myself clear that I have no intention of judging this woman nor do I care to debate the logistics of what the bible has to say about it. In my opinion, she was a coward. She sold herself short and most importantly she sold her family short. Perhaps a lesson was supposed to come from such a tragic situation. If she would have perservered through the pain it could have been a lesson to herself that she is capable of anything, to her family to never stop fighting, and to others to always trust in the hand that life deals you. However, by refusing to fight through the pain she has set a standard that quitting is an option. Suicide whether it is assisted or not, is selfish. She was given an opportunity to learn and to teach others what she has learned ; instead she has left her family in complete turmoil. She left them with questions like what if she would have made it? What if we would have had more time? Her family is now left with their own pain to face and I imagine because of the precident that she set; they will quit as well instead of fighting through. It may seem easier said than done, but one thing is for sure when faced with time of adversity Frank W. Tracy will not quit. I will not submit to the idea that quitting is an option. In the end if I am dying of cancer in a hospital room I will hug every hospice nurse that I come in contact with in hopes of making one last impact. That being said, Ill be drinking up the morpheine once the nurses leave the room. I will use every last moment to instill values into my children that I wish for them to have. I will not take the coward way out, I will choose to finish my life in dignity. There is no dignity in suicide. When the good Lord calls me home and I take my last breath I will die knowing that Frank. W. Tracy did not die a coward nor a quitter.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:18:00 +0000