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Terminally ill 29 year old, Brittany Maynard chooses to end her life

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29 year old Brittany Maynard will die on November 1st 2014 and it is a decision she has made by her ownself.

Brittany was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer just over a year after she got married and she was having endless headaches. Speaking about her ordeal,  she said “I had a partial craniotomy and a partial resection of my temporal lobe. Both surgeries were an effort to stop the growth of my tumor. In April, I learned that not only had my tumor come back, but it was more aggressive. Doctors gave me a prognosis of six months to live,”.

After months of research, my family and I reached a heartbreaking conclusion: There is no treatment that would save my life, and the recommended treatments would have destroyed the time I had left. she added

Maynard and her family recently relocated to Portland, Oregon, to take advantage of the state’s Death With Dignity Act, which was passed in 1997.

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