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Wednesday, 5 November 2014

NEWS:

BRITTANY MAYNARD FINALLY DIES AS SHE WANTS

I posted the story of Brittany Maynard some weeks back here.Well, my faithful readers who have been following and leaving their comments on my post know about her story. And as for those who didn't bother to check the post, Brittany Maynard is a 29 year old woman who decides to voluntarily take her life due to chronic brain cancer she was diagnosed of about 11 weeks ago.read more of her story here. Prior to her death, she moved a motion to legalize suicide. She called it the ''death with dignity'' campaign.

PHOTO: Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old with terminal illness, is fighting to expand the death-with-dignity option to all.

Brittany finally dies on November 1, which she had earlier slated as her death date. Eleven months ago,she made a bucket lists of all the things she hopes to achieve before she dies and she was happy to fulfill them all.

These are some of her last words:

"When people criticize me for not, not like waiting longer or whatever they've decided is best for me, it hurts because really I risk it every day that I wake up and I do it because 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 but it will come because I feel myself getting sicker I feel it happening each week."

"If November 2nd comes along and I've passed, I hope my family is still proud of me and the choices I've made,"

''My health has been deteriorating in the past weeks and there is never a day i don't have seizures.Recently, i had two seizures in a day.Something that had never happened before. I presently have a ring of support around my bed as i type''.It's a devastating condition indeed..

"I remember looking at my husband at one point and thinking I know this is my husband but I can't say his name,"

"If all my dreams came through I would somehow survive this but I most likely won't so beyond that having been an only child for my mother I want her to recover from this and not break down and not suffer from any kind of depression,"