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发帖数: 16092 | 1 Death With Dignity Advocate Brittany Maynard Dies in Oregon
By Bill Briggs
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Brittany Maynard has died, according to an obituary posted to her website
Sunday night.
She was 29. She was diagnosed in April with a fatal brain tumor — told the
cancer likely would kill her in six months. But she had no intention, she
said, of allowing the disease to control how she lived, or how she died.
Maynard had planned since spring — a bittersweet stretch packed with “
bucket list” moments, seizures and excruciating headaches — to escape the
final stages of her cancer on Saturday, a day she had long cited, by
drinking a lethal mixture of water, sedatives and respiratory-depressing
drugs.
Her obituary did not reveal how Maynard died, or exactly when, but her
friends began posting Facebook farewells to her on Saturday night.
"Brittany chose to make a well thought out and informed choice to Die With
Dignity in the face of such a terrible, painful, and incurable illness. She
moved to Oregon to pass away in a little yellow house she picked out in the
beautiful city of Portland. Oregon is a place that strives to protect
patient rights and autonomy; she wished that her home State of California
had also been able to provide terminally ill patients with the same choice,"
the obituary reads.
"In this final message, she wanted to express a note of deep thanks to all
her beautiful, smart, wonderful, supportive friends whom she 'sought out
like water" during her life and illness for insight, support, and the shared
experience of a beautiful life.
She told her family before passing: "It is people who pause to appreciate
life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change
our world! Love and peace to you all." |
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