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California’s End of Life Option Act and How it Would have Changed Mom’s Death

October 12, 2015 by Dr. V

In 2014, a young, vibrant woman named Brittany Maynard moved from the home in California she had known all her life so that she could die on her own terms in Oregon. Diagnosed with glioblastoma, arguably one of the most monstrous forms of cancer in this world, Maynard was willing to uproot her life, put her face out into the world, and share a most intimate decision with a universe of strangers in order to help people understand why someone might make the decision to hasten their death. With ... Read more »

Filed Under: Cancer sucks, Daily Life, Musings, Picks of the Litter Tagged With: assisted death, cancer sucks, end of life, End of Life Options Act, hospice, mom

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