
Brain Cancer Will Likely Kill Me, But There’s No Way I’ll Kill Myself. Like Brittany Maynard, I have extremely aggressive brain cancer. But I’m not downing any kill pills.
By the Rev. Mary Holder Naegeli, Bringing the Word to Life blog
One of my regular readers has asked me to comment here about the case of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who moved from San Francisco to Portland in order to organize an assisted suicide in the state of Oregon where it is legal.
What I would like to do with this first post on the subject is simply to offer the different approaches of two women with brain tumors, Brittany Maynard herself and Maggie Karner.
Since it is Sunday as I write this, I will not retell their stories but allow them to do so: