A Right To Die

          Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with glioblastoma and was told she had only a few months to live. At only 29 years old, this was devastating news for her and her family. Instead of going on and on about this woman's life, I will spare you the details. Basically she was the face of the "Right-to-Die" movement where she proclaimed she would not let this cancer kill her, so she had an assisted suicide instead. The question is, is this right? Is it okay to take your own life if it spares you the pain of death that is coming? Biblically I think this is wrong because God gave us life and it is his right to take it away, not ours. But hey, if abortion is morally right in todays society, anything should be acceptable. But unfortunately not everyone in our world looks at issues like these biblically, so I have to address it non-biblically as well. So even if this assisted suicide was considered okay, where would it end? They would then have to start considering euthanization of the sick and the elderly as being okay. But if we say thats wrong then everybody starts getting all sensitive and crying saying "we have a right to do this its our lives and our bodies" but the constitution says we have equal rights as people, it doesn't mean we have the right to do whatever we please. If that were the case we would have no laws and our country would just be chaos. But this woman did have cancer, and she was going to die a painful death, so this assisted suicide made her, at the time happier, and I'm sure it made her family happier too knowing she would not be going through as much pain. So although I do not think her decision was the right one, she did what she thought was right, but was it right?