Ore. — A 29-year-old woman who has terminal brain cancer has chosen to end her life on November 1st.
Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer in January of this year. She lives in Oregon where physician-assisted suicide is legal and says she wants to die in her bedroom surrounded by her husband, her mother and other close family members.
Maynard qualified for the death with dignity act; receiving a prescription for medication that will end her life peacefully on her own terms.
Brittany Maynard says, “I can’t even tell you the amount of relief that 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.”
She is using her final days to raise awareness for others in similar situations, volunteering for compassion & choices, an advocacy organization for terminally ill patients.
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