when matt and his wife ginger first met they never thought about the idea of aid in dying, but the former army soldier has been forced to learn more than he ever imagined. do you feel like why me, is the sentiment anger? never once. he never, ever did. because there s no you know, there s a four-year-old girl with cancer somewhere, she didn t do anything to anybody. in 2014 britney menard brought the right-to-die movement back into the country s consciousness. i can t tell you the amount of relief it provides me to know that i don t have to die the way that it s been described to me that my brain tumor would take me on its own. before maynard s death the country was almost evenly split as to whether doctors should be legally allowed to assist terminally ill patients with suicide. a few years later, 28% against.
sit vigil by my days or weeks before i passed away. i do want to and there is an important part of this that folks want to understand that this is going into effect, and this right might not go into effect for you. how do you make sense of that? because if it does not go into place and time for you, and is it just a cruel irony of the fight that you have been waging? and cool way to articulate it, and when we decided to speak out in front of the legislature in california and to carry out what britney menard and her family started, we knew that we would not be able to utilize the law, but we did it so that hopefully my daughter bailey and i will be the one of the last families to needlessly suffer in california.
sinful. and i have read the letters of those who have heart felt pleas from britney menard s family and arch bishop desmond tutu, and in addition i have discussed this matter with a catholic bishop, and two of my own doctors andle forrer classma and former fam and former classmates and friends who were varied, contradictory and nuanced positions. i dot no know what decision i would make if i were dying in prolong and excruciating pain. i am certain, however, that i would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill. and i wouldn t deny that right to the others. and he mentioned britney who