![]() ![]() ![]() Maynard starred in tear-inducing videos circulated by Compassion & Choices. The group Compassion & Choices brought national attention to Brittany Maynard, who chose to die November 1, when she was just 29, by taking a legal lethal prescription rather than lose her mind to an aggressive cancerous brain tumor. In recent years, the movement for physician-assisted dying has seized the phrase “death with dignity” in its campaign to expand that option beyond the five states where it’s now legal. But in her last years of life, her saga of accepting suffering became, in a quietly powerful way, a cultural force for another way of choosing death with dignity, one that refused to hasten death. (RNS) Metastatic breast cancer took Kara Tippetts from her pastor husband, Jason, and their four children on Sunday (March 22). ![]()
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