Brittany Maynard, The 29-Year-Old With Brain Cancer, Has Committed Suicide
Photo Credit: LifeNewsBy Steven Ertelt.
Brittany Maynard, the cancer patient who received national attention over her plan to kill herself under Oregon’s assisted suicide law on November 1 has taken her own life. That’s despite the fact that cancer patients and pro-life groups have tried to talk her out of the decision.
The Portland Oregonian newspaper first reported that Brittany died Sunday afternoon after taking her own life with legally-prescribed lethal drugs. People magazine confirmed her death an hour later in a news report.
“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,” Brittany 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 best as I type …. Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!”
Her death comes despite her decision last week to postpone her suicide — with Maynard telling CBS that it “doesn’t seem like the right time now” to end her life.
“I still feel good enough and I still have enough joy and I still laugh and smile with my family and friends enough that it doesn’t seem like the right time right now,” Maynard said late last week in that interview. “But it will come, because I feel myself getting sicker. It’s happening each week.”
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Photo Credit: Compassion and ChoicesFamily, friends of Brittany Maynard say goodbye on social media
By KGW.com Staff.
Many posts on social media said that Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill woman who moved to Oregon to take advantage of the state’s doctor-assisted suicide law, has died.
Sean Crowley, spokesman for the nonprofit advocacy group Compassion & Choices, told KGW he could not confirm Maynard’s death out of respect for the family’s privacy. Maynard reportedly joined Compassion & Choices, which is advocating for death-with-dignity laws in several states.
Maynard was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. She moved with her family to Oregon so she could legally kill herself with lethal medication prescribed under theOregon Death With Dignity Act.
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