Brittany Maynard ended her life this weekend. The 29-year-old had been previously diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and had reignited the national debate on assisted suicide when she publicly ...

Maynard reached out to another death with dignity advocate. — -- Brittany Maynard, the cancer patient who battled for the right to die with dignity last month, sent out an email to a woman she ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A terminally ill woman who renewed a nationwide debate about physician-assisted suicide has ended her young life with the lethal drugs available under Oregon’s Death With Dignity Law.

Twenty-nine-year-old Brittany Maynard says she is going to die on November 1. She knows that for certain because it's the date she's chosen to end her life. After going to the doctor with painful ...

A terminally ill California woman who moved to Oregon to take advantage of the state's Death with Dignity Act is changing the right-to-die debate, says Arthur L. Caplan, a renowned bioethicist.