Born with hip dysplasia and diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, fibromyalgia and manic-depressive disorder, she aspires to be one hell of an old woman. According to a praise-filled obituary from the Feminist Majority Foundation, Good's timing of her death was meant to tell the world of the joy she derived from feminism.
Depression frequently goes undiagnosed and untreated among the marginalized.
Good had experienced several family stresses of a sort to trigger or worsen depression. Good had become an assisted-suicide activist after her own mother's illness and death in the 1970s. Several times, she acknowledged, she had planned to administer lethal drugs to her mother, but was unable to carry out the plan. When Good herself was diagnosed with a terminal illness, she told friends and reporters she might turn to Kevorkian rather than die as her mother had. Peabody, a homemaker in her fifties, had lived with multiple sclerosis for 27 years.