Assisted Suicide: The suicide of a patient suffering from an incurable disease, effected by the raking of lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose. Assisted suicide is currently illegal in 45 states, last Monday, Governor Jerry Brown passed a bill to legalize it in California, making California one of only five states to allow assisted suicide. Brittany Maynard was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at the young age of 29 on January 1st 2014. It was a grade 2 astrocytoma; it then developed further to a grade 4 astrocytoma, giving her approximately six months to live. She knew that she wanted to end her life by assisted suicide opposed to letting the disease take its course. At the time she lived in California, but because assisted
