Comments on: Going West

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:46:12 +0000

Thanks Matt. I can’t help but wonder if the large ginger beard you grew was one of the things that Lecretia would have wanted to see. I recommend you read a poem by Brian Patten called So Many Different Lengths of Time.
You will never forget Lecretia but I hope you begin to remember the love and happiness you shared.

By: Cher

Cher — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:47:59 +0000

Amazing and very moving words. I wish you Matt all the very best for the future. Lecretia certainly had an amazing husband.

By: Marion Ransom

Marion Ransom — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:16:39 +0000

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings about your sadness and loss. This is such a moving piece to read. Thank you too for the efforts you are making to build on Lecretia’s valuable legacy.

By: Gabrielle Carruthers

Gabrielle Carruthers — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:42:41 +0000

I fully support a terminally ill patients desire to request a speedy departure from this life, a prepared departure and a peaceful one

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:43:37 +0000

I was glad to read your post this morning as I have thought about you often over the last few months. And I hope with the gentle passage of time, that the gnawing pain of Lecretia’s passing will lessen. Such a loss.

In my thoughts.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:40:35 +0000

Thank you Matt for taking the time to let us all know how you are going and what is happening with the euthanasia process.
I think the hardest thing I find with grief, is watching others carry on with life around me, it seems or feels like I have stood still or in a different reality. I to am so impressed with the way you are able to articulate your thoughts and feelings.

By: Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:11:20 +0000

You write so beautifully. I’m glad you had a big trip away. You will have been exhausted. I am working on a submission.

By: Don Grant

Don Grant — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:51:18 +0000

Matt, I did the same after Yoka died – went to Europe for 6 weeks. I took some of her ashes to her mum in Belgium. And I met with some of the people who helped craft the right to die law that was successfully introduced in 2002. People are the same the world over and want the same things. To be able to die with dignity, when the pain and suffering becomes unbearable.
We’ll win this fight – it’s now only a matter of time.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:06:16 +0000

Hi Matt,
Good on you for taking the plunge and going to the other side of the world.
I absolutely admire anyone who can travel alone, I dont think i could do it. And especially after all of what you have been through, is even more admirable.
Keep writing, people do read, it will help not only others, but yourself.

Sending you strength,
Jess

By: Katrina Lendich

Katrina Lendich — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:47:24 +0000

Matt, I too am stumped for words but the tears are flowing. You are an amazing man. I know what the loneliness is about. Keep yr head high and your wonderful thoughts flowing and your amazing insights into this sometimes very sad world. Thinking of you.