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Brittany Maynard & Euthanasia

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Some thoughts on the terminally ill brain cancer patient and the right to euthanasia.. By Hannah Valmadre Earlier this week, 29-year-old terminal brain cancer patient Brittany Maynard ended her life on her own terms. She moved with her family from California to Oregon where she could legally access The Death With Dignity Act, which is only available in certain states of the USA. Maynard’s story went viral, and she decided to share her story with the world in the hope that all Americans would one day be able to access the same public policy she was able to. In a video recorded not long before November 1, Maynard expressed that, “my goal of course is to influence this policy for positive change and I would like to see all Americans to have access to the same healthcare rights.”  It is my personal hope that Maynard’s story and her bravery will help influence other countries to embrace compassion and legalise regulated voluntary euthanasia and/or physician assisted suicide for terminally i