WASHINGTON — The Oregon woman who said that she would end her life on Saturday has done so, People magazine reports.
The 29-year-old who had been diagnosed with the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma had announced last month that she would end her life under Oregon’s Death With Dignity law, which gives terminally ill patients barbiturates and lets them decide when and whether to take them. Maynard said she would end her life Nov. 1, then said last week that “it doesn’t seem like the right time.”
People says that Maynard posted on Facebook, “Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love. Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me
