![]() ![]() Withholding treatment or removing life support-decisions made in America every day-were not an option for her. She ruled out hospice care because medication would not relieve her pain or forestall personality changes, including verbal, cognitive, and motor loss. “My quality of life, as I knew it, would be gone,” she admits in the CNN article. She opted out of full brain radiation that would leave her scalp covered with first-degree burns. When her aggressive tumor came back three months later, she was given a prognosis of six months to live. Nine days after the diagnosis, she had a disfiguring partial craniotomy and partial resection of her temporal lobe to stop the growth of the tumor. ![]() “Our lives devolved into hospital stays, doctor consultations, and medical research,” she states in her article. However, after months of suffering from debilitating headaches, she learned on New Year’s Day that she had brain cancer. 2 Married just over a year, she and her husband were trying for a family. Maynard, in her October 7, 2014, CNN article, “My Right to Death with Dignity at 29,” describes what led up to this decision. ![]() The right-to-die debate was cast into the spotlight on November 1, 2014, when Brittany Maynard, a beautiful young California woman, took her own life by a doctor- prescribed lethal dose.
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