The Death with Dignity Chick chickened out. Not killing herself on Saturday.

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  1. MickZagger

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    Maybe she wasn't thinking straight? With a brain tumor and all...
     
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  2. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    Sure, but there was also a lot of pressure to die on that day, she was a symbol for a movement. It seems she had last minute change of mind but something happened. This type of decision isn't really supposed to be at the whim of what someone feels from day to day.
     
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    Maybe she just wanted to die in peace surrounded by loved ones instead of having a media circus outside her home and harassing her family. Doesn't sound like she changed her mind, sounds like she fucked with the press. Props!
     
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    As someone who went through a variation of this, I get it. Mine was not inoperable, of course, and I have no idea how the pain relates, but I know there were times I was in agony. I don't think I would ever take my own life, but I understand why she did.
     
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  5. speeds

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    I heard when MM asked his doctor for a second opinion, his doctor told him he was ugly, too.

    #norespect
     
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    But you are the press!
     
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    In Chinese no less
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    You find it odd? I find it completely normal. No matter how rational her decision is/was on the surface (terminating her life before her mind completely goes and the tumor gave her a slow agonizing death) making the decision to pull your own plug runs counter to every organism's hardwired, impulse to cling to life. I hope I'm never faced with the same choice.
     
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  9. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    Well, its not something you should be wishy washy about.
     
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    It's odd how hard you are trying to portray this woman in a negative light.
     
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  11. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    She made herself the spokesperson and figurehead for a major political movement, you go public like that you ask for your life to be looked at under a microscope. Its about balance in looking at the issue. She changed her mind basically the day or two before she killed herself. Maybe it was a red herring, maybe it wasn't. The major news outlets seem to be kind of overlooking that whole part of it now.
     
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    She should have taken her suicide cocktail to a state that doesn't have assisted suicide and ended her life there.

    The good news is that she is no longer a spokesperson but with modern preservation techniques she can still be a figurehead.
     
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    Why would you just take a pill to die? I'd do some crazy skydiving trip, bungie jump without the cord, or strap a jet engine to my car, head to the utah salt flats and go into a cliff at 1000mph
     
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    [video=youtube;MfmYCM4CS8o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmYCM4CS8o[/video]
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Somebody's got to clean that up afterwards.

    Are there cliffs on the salt flats? I thought they were, like, flat.

    barfo
     
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