Death with Dignity Everyone deserves to determine their time of death. Of course under the giving circumstances a terminal illness. This was the case of Brittany Maynard who at the age of 29 was diagnosed with brain cancer. Her cancer consisted of a partial craniotomy and a partial resection of her temporal lobe. Her Original diagnostic was wrong, she later found out she only had six months to live. Doctors recommended brain radiation to avoid the pain and the likely hood it will increase her chances of death. She refused to let her family watch her die in a painful way. Maynard took the tough decision and “started researching death with dignity. It is an end-of-life option for mentally competent, terminally ill patients with a prognosis of six months or less to live” (1). Maynard was very well qualified, but unfortunately the State of California did not offer “Death with Dignity”. Therefore Maynard transferred to Oregon because it was the only state that approved the death with dignity act. Moving wasn’t easy, there had to be major changes “I met the criteria for death with dignity in Oregon, but establishing residency in the state to make use of the law required a monumental number of changes”(1). Even though Maynard struggled to have the right to die …show more content…
Maynard explains her struggles dealing with a terminal disease herself and how the Death with Dignity Act allowed her and her family pain. She hopes to persuade America to take action in legalizing the Death with Dignity Act, so everyone can die with dignity in their own terms. Maynard uses her personal experience to appeal to the general audience, specifically California, to join her protest against the illegalized law, Death with