{"id":84610,"date":"2016-01-12T15:29:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=84610"},"modified":"2016-01-13T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:14:01","slug":"marine-diagnosed-with-same-cancer-brittany-maynard-chose-life-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/marine-diagnosed-with-same-cancer-brittany-maynard-chose-life-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine diagnosed with same cancer as Brittany Maynard chose life instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>We all know <a href=\"\/news\/29-year-old-cancer-patient-brittany-maynard-will-take-her-life-in-less-than-30-days\/\">Brittany Maynard&#8217;s story<\/a> by now. The beautiful 29-year-old seemingly had it all, until she was diagnosed with Stage IV glioblastoma multiforme, the deadliest form of brain cancer, and told that she only had months left to live.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than fighting the cancer, or spending her last months cherishing the time she had with her husband and her family, Maynard sought physician-assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>On top of her decision, Maynard went on a very public media tour about it, speaking openly about how she moved to Oregon to take advantage of its\u00a0&#8220;death with dignity&#8221; laws, which allow assisted suicide. She wanted to see every state make assisted suicide legal. Maynard\u00a0publicly set a date, and announced to the world that she would end her life\u00a0&#8212; and, as planned, <a href=\"\/news\/brittany-maynard-has-ended-her-life\/\">she killed herself on November 1, 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>JJ Hanson&#8217;s story could not be more different.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hanson is a former Marine who was also diagnosed with Stage IV glioblastoma multiforme. He, too, was told that he only had four months to live. Unlike Maynard, Hanson chose life. He chose to fight, and got a second opinion\u2014 and then a third\u2014 until he found a doctor willing to aggressively treat his cancer. Now, 20 months later, he&#8217;s in remission,\u00a0and he&#8217;s speaking out in hopes of preventing the passage of any more assisted suicide laws.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last year, he released a video that aimed to give hope to other people fighting cancer:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vd4ddIMUaG8&amp;w=640&amp;h=360]<\/p>\n<p>This week, he <a href=\"http:\/\/nj1015.com\/former-nj-marine-jj-hanson-i-continue-to-fight-to-live\/\">did an interview with New Jersey radio personality Bill Spadea<\/a>, and he talked about why it&#8217;s insulting to people with terminal illnesses to call it &#8220;death with dignity&#8221; and to advocate for assisted suicide:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I was told you don\u2019t have an option. You can die dignified if you commit suicide. Whoa, wait a second. The whole terminology is flipping on its head. If you give up and you don\u2019t fight, somehow you\u2019re compassionate and dignified. But if you want to fight and you want to live, you lack compassion and dignity. To me it just doesn\u2019t make sense. It\u2019s kind of a reflection of where our society is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s also spoken out about Brittany Maynard before:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cI saw it as a bad example for others who had this form of brain cancer,\u201d Hanson said of Maynard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230; \u201cWhen you see people choosing not to fight and choosing to go toward the alternative, it removes a large part of the ability to fight against disease because there are fewer people going into clinical trials,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hanson also isn&#8217;t the only person fighting a terminal illness to <a href=\"\/news\/maggie-karner-woman-challenged-assisted-suicide-laws-died-cancer\/\">speak against Brittany Maynard&#8217;s assisted suicide campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brittany Maynard chose not to fight her cancer and chose to commit suicide. And while she tried to claim that it wasn&#8217;t suicide\u00a0\u2014that her death was due to her disease \u2014\u00a0suicide is exactly what it was. To say\u00a0it was somehow more dignified than the alternative is not true.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Karner, another\u00a0cancer sufferer that spoke out about Maynard&#8217;s suicide, pointed out that her father became paralyzed when he was dying, and could do nothing but talk. This led to a greater intimacy than she&#8217;d ever before had with her father, and that her family grew closer, learning more about love and sacrifice in the process. Karner also said\u00a0that they could be part of research trials that could help other people suffering from their disease, even if it was too early to help themselves. Karner died, too, but she fought to the end. <em>That<\/em> is a\u00a0courageous and powerful\u00a0example of living out your final days with dignity.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a more sinister issue hiding behind assisted suicide, one that both Karner and Hanson voiced. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/hc-op-karner-no-physician-assisted-suicide-0301-20150227-story.html\">Karner aptly put it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I get strength and comfort from the knowledge that nobody is going to give up on me \u2014 medically, psychologically or holistically. Right now, I have the firm support of the state and my fellow citizens in my desire to live \u2014 no matter the cost or burden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If that were to change, the tiny knowledge that I might be straining my family, friends, doctors or community resources unnecessarily would be a heavy burden. The constant \u201coption\u201d for suicide would wear at my resolve and I fear, become an unspoken \u201cduty\u201d for me and others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If assisted suicide becomes an option, then how many people fighting terminal illnesses will also have to fight off the feeling that they&#8217;re a burden, and that their life is no longer valuable? These individuals will feel as if they would be causing pain and suffering to their family and their friends.<\/p>\n<p>Or how many will believe that fighting their illness will cost so much more than a one-time cost of the drugs needed to kill themselves? It puts even more pressure and more of a burden on individuals\u00a0who already have a difficult fight ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something that Maynard may have experienced herself \u2014\u00a0when she announced that she might not go through with her plan to kill herself on November 1\u2014 as one of her statements was extremely telling. She said she hoped that her family would still be proud of her if she did go through with physician-assisted suicide. Were there people pressuring her, perhaps even unintentionally? Did she feel an obligation to kill herself, as opposed to it being her own decision? Lord knows that Compassion &amp; Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassionandchoices.org\/userfiles\/2011-VSEDBook.pdf\">their own agenda to push<\/a>, and it&#8217;s not &#8220;death with dignity&#8221; for the terminally ill.<\/p>\n<p>Just because a person is terminally ill, it does not mean they have suddenly been stripped of their human dignity. A person with disabilities or who is bedridden is not less valuable. It&#8217;s not incomprehensible that someone with a terminal illness might consider ending their life, but what&#8217;s sickening is that the assisted suicide lobby is there to feed into their insecurities, to tell them that their life\u00a0no longer has dignity or value, and that to continue living would make them\u00a0a burden on their\u00a0family, on their\u00a0medical providers, and on society.<\/p>\n<p>The assisted suicide lobby is\u00a0there to feed into that person&#8217;s worst fear and to encourage their demons. They aren&#8217;t there to reassure them, to tell them that their life will <em>always<\/em> have value and meaning.<\/p>\n<p>JJ Hanson is an inspiration, not just because he survived, but because he chose life. The value and dignity of life does not depend on how long a person lives, or on their quality of life, or on how much they might suffer. 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