By Lindsey Bever | The Washington Post
Brittany Maynard, the terminally-ill 29-year-old who spent her final days advocating for death-with-dignity laws, took lethal drugs prescribed by her physician on Saturday and died, a spokesman said, “as she intended — peacefully in her bedroom, in the arms of her loved ones.”
Maynard, who was diagnosed earlier this year with a stage 4 malignant brain tumor, said last month she planned to die Nov. 1 in her home in Portland, Ore., with help from her doctor. And Saturday, she said farewell, having succeeded at reviving interest–and debate–in a charged subject that had been out of the news for some years. (See “How Brittany Maynard may change the right-to-die debate.”
