Terminally Ill Woman Brittany Maynard Has Ended Her Own Life
By Jessica Sheinfeld
Brittany Maynard, who became the public face of the controversial right-to-die movement over the last few weeks, ended her own life Saturday at her home in Portland, Oregon. She was 29. "Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love. Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me … but would have taken so much more," she wrote on Facebook. "The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type … Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!" Doctors told Maynard she had six months to live last spring after she was diagnosed with a likely stage 4 glioblastoma. She made headlines around the world when she announced she intended to die – under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act – by taking a fatal dose of barbiturates, prescribed to her by a doctor, when her suffering became too great.
I think Brittany Maynard is such a brave soul. It will never be easy to decide to end your own life even though you would have to go through great suffering. To leave her family and friends must've been such a hard decision and I commend her on making that decision.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/brittany-maynard-advocate-death-dignity-ends-life/story?id=26644431
Yeah I agree. I think that's a great way to show the positives of the freedom to commit suicide or have other people help you. She was suffering terribly and was already going to die but this way she did it herself before things got worse.
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