Warning: This post deals with issues around assisted suicide and could be triggering for some readers.
Update:
Brittany Maynard the 29-year-old terminally ill woman who planned to take her own life this Saturday after a battle with terminal brain cancer has released a new video saying that she may or may not choose to die on that date.
“So if Nov. 2 comes along and I’ve passed, I hope my family is still proud of me and the choices I made,” says Brittany.
Brittany said in the video that she is still finding joy in her everyday life.
On her web site she writes “I did this because I want to see a world where everyone has access to death with dignity, as I have had. My journey is easier because of this choice. “
Previously, Mamamia wrote:
Brittany Maynard is 29 and has less than a month to live. She knows when, where and how she will pass.
She knows this because she has chosen all of it, in a courageous battle to take control of her life away from a brain tumour.
After experiencing debilitating headaches, Brittany Maynard found out she has brain cancer. In January this year, Brittany was diagnosed with grade II astrocytoma. Then, just 70 days after receiving surgery, Brittany’s prognosis dramatically worsened.
“I went from having potentially years of time to being told I had like 6 months,” Brittany says in the video. Brittany was diagnosed with the most aggressive and lethal form of brain cancer – glioblastoma. Studies have shown that regardless of treatment, few patients survive beyond three years.
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My mother passed late Monday night from breast cancer metastases. She has been riddled with cancer for two years, throughout her bones, lungs and brain. She had previously been diagnosed with breast cancer 21 years ago, and again 7 years ago. Life has been hell. There has been no quality of life for her for some time now, and watching her, caring for her has been traumatic for her and my father and I. The last three days of her life were horrific. The pain, the suffering. I'll never forget it. If this lady still has quality of life, enjoy it for as long as you can. And if you have the option of ending your life peacefully, so you and your family do not suffer unnecessarily at the hands of a medical system which offers little dignity for the dying (my firsthand experience), then take it.
Her life, her choice
After watching my mother at 12 die from cancer, doped to the eyeballs, wishing with every breath just to go, eventually telling me and my brother to not come in as she didnt want to be seen like it
I have to wonder why we cant let people have dignity in their death, we do our animals as we dont want them to suffer
Its disgusting we have so little respect for the terminally ill
I wish her and her family all the best in whatever road she takes