Cancer stinks. Death sucks. Daniel Payne puts it well: To die with dignity. I genuinely have no idea what this means. Cancer—even the terrible brain cancer with which Maynard was afflicted—is neither dignified nor undignified; it simply is. To ascribe a qualitative value like “dignity” to an illness like cancer, or the death that results from it, is to miss the awful point of cancer entirely: that it strikes capriciously, it is unfair, and it is often inexplicable and bewildering. Dignity has nothing to do with it; there is neither honor nor shame in such a death, only death. Read the whole article below. thefederalist/2014/11/04/brittany-maynards-death-was-not-dignified/
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 00:32:50 +0000
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