A veteran is using his personal experiences to battle both physician-assisted suicide and terminal brain cancer to protect other patients.
“In 2014, when I was diagnosed with a terminal form of brain cancer, the doctors gave me four months to live. They basically told me to go home and enjoy the time I had left,” J.J. Hanson said in a Facebook Live interview with The Daily Signal.
Hanson, a former Marine, said physician-assisted suicide exploits patients’ natural depressive states, something he is familiar with.
“In 2014, when I was diagnosed with a terminal form of brain cancer, the doctors gave me four months to live. They basically told me to go home and enjoy the time I had left,” he said in the video interview.