Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Terminally ill
Brittany Maynard takes her own life
Though it is
legal, doctor-assisted suicide is still one of the most controversial issue,
especially for the young. This would-have-been 30 on 11-14-2014 woman was diagnosed
with brain cancer on New Year's Day of this year and was told she had only six
months to live. She had been married only for 15 months then.
She moved to
Oregon where such assisted suicide is legal. There have been over 750 people
who took the advantage of the law, most of them were aged patients and only six
of them were under 35.
She earned two
degrees, taught orphans in South East Asian countries, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro
and tried to live as much as she could. But increasingly frequent and severe pains
and stroke-like symptoms made her choose to take the aid-in-dying medication
she had received months ago.
Read and imagine
how painful and regretful would have been for her to end her life at such an
early stage of life.
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