The Portland Oregonian has more, and relies on multiple comments from Maynard’s family and friends on her official Facebook page who indicate she had taken her life:
Numerous Facebook posts by relatives and friends indicate Brittany Maynard, the terminally ill 29-year-old who has said she moved to Oregon to use the Death with Dignity Act, has died.
The Oregonian is attempting to confirm details. Messages began populating Facebook pages and Twitter accounts this afternoon. But we have not yet independently verified that Maynard has died.
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RIP…Real Interesting Person
Oops, bacronym, wrong post!
Bing seems to confirm she has.
http://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Brittany+Maynard&qft=sortbydate%3d%221%22&form=YFNR
My dad had brain cancer. It was brutal and took a huge toll on him and our family.
As hard as this is, I don’t think I fault her for her decision.
May she rest in peace and may her loved ones celebrate her life and move forward.
John & Ken @ KFI radio should catch onto this. A month or so ago they were covering death row inmates’ executions and how the medical formulas weren’t performing properly, inciting “cruel & unusual punishment” dirges from the inmates’ relatives, etc.
So, what are these “doctors” giving their “patients” in order to die peacefully? All 752 of them?
My father died of cancer, my mother of Alzheimer’s.
Daughter lives in OR, I will go there rather than subject my family to the financial burden and heartbreak of watching me die painfully.
If abortion is condoned, why not euthanasia?
My dad had brain cancer too. That’s the reason I would rather die of cancer than go through the torture of chemo.
I always wonder if they get to pass through the pearly gates when they take the easy way out.
If I get it I’m going to piss off Bad Brad and I hope he will blow me away.
My luck the cure would be found the next day.
Death is like walking through a rice paper wall in Japan.
It sure makes it easier for the obolocare death panels if they can glamorous suicide and encourage people to make the decision themselves. Not to mention more profitable if they can require health insurance and not provide health care.
Don’t forget, progs want earths’ population back down to 2 billion. That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
It’s easy to make lite of this subject, but until you’ve been in the position of having someone who has been in excruciating prolonged pain beg you to help them end it you just don’t have a clue.
If you’ve never been diagnosed as “terminal” then someday you will be. It is a strange path, and if you tell anybody, you will be remembered to one degree or another for how you handled it. Life is for the living – what are you going to do?
Doc, those making ‘light’ of the subject haven’t been “in the position of having someone who has been in excruciating prolonged pain”. Thus the lightness. Do you expect such people to be bent over double in grief about something they’ve never experienced?
Very sad. Not sure why God’s statistics demand it, but here it is nonetheless. Maybe it’s to remind us all we are not immortal.
False. We are immortal. Not our bodies of course.
Your soul could’ve been born into a Chinese laborer in 400 AD. Or whenever.
So, as the saying goes…USA! Fuck yeah!
My problem is with the need to make your personal situation the whole country’s problem. Suicide can be done without official government sanction. Privacy is a completely foreign concept now. I wish this woman’s family peace and the strength to deal with her loss. I just don’t understand why everything unfortunate that happens to someone is now a national crusade for “rights” when frankly, she didn’t have to go to Oregon to off herself. And her family could have helped her and no one would have needed to give them permission. And I know this because my uncle, when faced with a terminal diagnosis, ended his life with his family around him and no need to make a federal case out of it. And while we’re at it, I also loathe roadside memorials (niece and brother in law died in a car accident, so I’ve been there too).
I guess your life and death don’t count as real anymore if you haven’t publicized every single moment…
That’s fine for Oregon. I’ll have a problem with it when they decide suicide is required.
What Merry said.
Sorry to hear about all of your losses, btw.
Suicide or wanting to live is your own problem. And I just don’t get why brittany and her family had to make it a public spectacle. They went on facebook and twitter and told people mag? Pretty gross. Sorry. Anyway, they can’t make it a public show and expect no one to criticize.
I agree with Zonga. Don’t make it a requirement, and I will add— don’t make tax payers have to pay for it.
For comments about Life and Death, see Marcus Aurelius.
For Gov’t. Assisted Suicide, see Kurt Vonnegut.