Death with DignityTANIN IZADI

Brittany Maynard

Diagnosed on New Year’s Day

Terminal and aggressive brain cancer

6 months to live

Married to Dan Diaz for just over a year

Died at 29 on November 1, 2014

Uprooting

Moved to Portland, Oregon One of only five states where death with dignity is authorized

The "death with dignity" movement advocates that terminally ill patients be allowed to receive medication that will let them die on their own terms

Picked a little yellow house to pass away in

Established residency New home

New driver’s license

Voter registration

Husband took a leave of absence

Pets needed caregivers

Her Choice

Prescription filled for weeks

Gave her a sense of peace Rather than fear, uncertainty, and pain

If she changed her mind then she would simply not take the prescription

Hoped this option is available to her fellow American citizens

The Choice

"I've had the medication for weeks. I am not suicidal. If I were, I would have consumed that medication long ago. I do not want to die. But I am dying. And I want to die on my own terms," Maynard wrote

One has the right to choose between life and death if they are medically in a state of misery

People should be understanding of one’s choice

Living a nightmare

Questions to Consider

Who has the right to tell one that they don't deserve the choice?

That one would deserve to suffer for weeks or months in tremendous amounts of physical and emotional pain?

How would one know the severity of another ones pain?

Why should anyone have the right to make that choice for another?

Works Cited

Ball, Howard. At liberty to die the battle for death with dignity in America. New York University Press,

ProQuest Reader. Database. 18 Nov. 2014.

Maynard, Brittany. “My right to death with dignity at 29.” CNN.com. Cable New Network, 2 Nov. 2014. Web. 18 Nov. 2014.

Salladay, Susan. “Death with Dignity?” Journal of Christian Nursing, Vol. 1. Journals@Ovid. Database. 18 Nov. 2014.