Death With Dignity Case Study

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Brittany Maynard was a 29 year old woman who after months of headaches found out she had brain cancer. After undergoing brain surgery , three months later her cancer came back for aggressive than it was previously as was told she had 6 months to live. Learning that because is young and fit although her brain is dying, her physical body would hang on for as long as possible and she would most likely undergo suffering. At this point, Brittany started to look into death with dignity options. Death with dignity or physician assisted death is only allowed in 5 states including Oregon where Brittany chose to move to and has many requirements including having physicians in that state, state residency driver’s license and others. Although she doesn’t

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