As Brittany Maynard made the announcement in a video that she would not be taking her own life this weekend, another woman suffering from the same tumor as the Death with Dignity advocate has reached ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- "Suffering is not worthless, and our lives are not our own to take." With those words published in an online essay, Catholic seminarian Philip Johnson places himself in the middle of ...

The Nov. 1 death of Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old terminal cancer patient who went public with her decision to end her life, is eliciting many responses both critical and supportive. For one ...

Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old newlywed who moved from California to Oregon to take advantage of the state's Death with Dignity Act, said a doctor’s remarks about her are "disrespectful and ...

Right-to-die advocate Brittany Maynard ended her life on Saturday, activists close to her family confirmed Sunday night, NBC News reported. The 29-year-old drank a lethal mixture of water, sedatives ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A young woman who moved to Oregon to take advantage of the state’s assisted-suicide law took lethal drugs prescribed by a doctor and has died, a spokesman said Sunday.