Advocate of ‘death with dignity’ ends her life in Oregon

A terminally ill woman who renewed a nationwide debate about physician-assisted suicide has ended her life with the lethal drugs available under Oregon’s Death With Dignity Law. Brittany Maynard was 29. Maynard, who had brain cancer, died peacefully in her bedroom on Saturday “in the arms of her loved ones,” said Sean Crowley, a spokesman for the advocacy group Compassion & Choices. Weeks ago, Maynard had said she might use the lethal drugs on Nov. 1, just a couple weeks short of her 30th birthday. Last week, she...