Brittany Lauren Maynard (November 19, 1984 - November 1, 2014) is an American woman with terminal brain cancer who decides that she will end her own life "when the time seems right." He is an advocate for the legalization of assisted death.
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Maynard was born in Anaheim, California, on November 19, 1984. Maynard graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2006 from the College of Letters and Science and the University of California, Irvine School of Education in 2010. with a degree masters in education. Interested in international travel since high school, Maynard taught at an orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal and also traveled to Vietnam, Cambodia, and other Southeast Asian countries.
On January 1, 2014, she was diagnosed with grade 2 astrocytoma, a type of brain cancer, and had a partial craniotomy and partial resection of the temporal lobe. Cancer returns in April 2014, and the diagnosis then increases to grade 4 astrocytoma, also known as glioblastoma, with a six-month prognosis for life.
He moved from California to Oregon to take advantage of Oregon's Death with the Law of Dignity, saying he has decided that "death with dignity is the best option for me and my family." He partnered with Compassion & amp; Option to create the Brittany Maynard Fund, which aims to legalize assisted deaths in countries that are now considered illegal. He also wrote an opinion piece for CNN titled "My Right to Dies with Dignity on 29".
On October 29, 2014, he stated that "it does not look like the right time at the moment" but he will still end his own life at some future point. Maynard plans to end his life on November 1, 2014, with medications prescribed by his doctor.
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Personal life
Maynard married Daniel Esteban "And" Diaz in September 2012, and before he received his diagnosis, they wished to have a family. In October 2014 he declared that he had checked the last item on his bucket list by visiting the Grand Canyon. In addition to her husband, she survived by her mother, Deborah Ziegler, and her stepfather, Gary Holmes.
Death
Reported on 2 November 2014, by People and other media sources that Maynard has ended his life on November 1 surrounded by his loved ones. In accordance with the laws of the state of Oregon about death with dignity, brain tumors are the leading cause of death on his death certificate.
Maynard wrote in his last post on Facebook: "Goodbye for all my beloved friends and family. Today is the day I choose to die dignified in the face of my deadly illness, this horrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me... but will take more. "
Activism and inheritance
In the weeks leading up to his death, Maynard is said to have become the face of a true-to-die United States debate, drawing public attention, with over 16 million unique visitors reading his story at People.com. Arthur Caplan, of the New York University Medical Ethics Division, writes that because Maynard was "young, vibrant, interesting... and very different people" from the average patient seeking dying medical help - then the average age of 71 years in Oregon - he "changed the optics of debate" and got people in his generation interested in the matter. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, writes that Maynard is a "new face" of assisted death movements that have "greatly helped future patients wanting the same." choice. "However, some severely ill people publicly criticized suicide promotion helped by Maynard, terminal cancer patients Kara Tippetts and Maggie Karner both sent letters to Maynard asking him to reconsider.
Three days after Maynard's death, an important Vatican official named his decision to die in the context of repeating the Catholic Church's position in the right to die debate, noting that "Suicide is not a good thing." It is a bad thing because it says no to life and to everything that matters in connection with our mission in the world and to those around us. "The Committee on the Right to National Life (NRLC) insists that from its perspective, Maynard opted for non-profit, Compassion & amp; The choice has "exploited Brittany Maynard's disease to promote the legalization of doctors prescribed suicide in the state." Brittany's mother defended her daughter's decision through a letter released by Compassion & amp; The choice, which states "My twenty-nine-year-old daughter's choice to die gently rather than suffer physical and mental degradation and severe pain is not deserved to be labeled a blameworthy by strangers away from the unknown continent or its specificity. situation."
At the time of Maynard's death, only three countries had death-by-dignity laws, with two others having court decisions protecting doctors who helped patients die, and bills have been introduced in seven other countries. The poll has found the American public divided on the introduction of the law. Maynard's activism has become a strong focus of the proposed death law proposed by Connecticut.
The Maynards have played testimony of the videos he recorded for proposed legislative changes in his home country, California. On September 11, 2015, California lawmakers gave final approval to the Bill's Bill of End Bill of Contract Option (SB 128). The modified version of the bill, ABx2 15, was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on October 5, 2015. It entered into force on 9 June 2016. On May 15, 2018, a state judge dismissed this law on the grounds that it was inappropriate to consider the right to death bills during the country's special legislative session that should be focused on health care spending and access issues.
Hawaii has become the seventh country to legalize medically assisted suicide. Hawaii Governor David Ige signed the bill into law in Honolulu on Thursday, April 5, 2018. The law will take effect on January 1, 2019.
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External links
- The Brittany Maynard Fund website; accessed November 2nd, 2014.
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