Brittany Maynard ended her life this weekend. The 29-year-old had been previously diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and had reignited the national debate on assisted suicide when she publicly ...

Maynard reached out to another death with dignity advocate. — -- Brittany Maynard, the cancer patient who battled for the right to die with dignity last month, sent out an email to a woman she ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The family of a terminally ill Bay Area woman who moved to Oregon so she could exercise her right to die went to the state Capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday. Brittany Maynard's ...

SACRAMENTO -- It was an emotional day of testimony on Wednesday in Sacramento, where a bill was introduced that would allow terminally ill Californians the choice to end their own lives with a ...

Twenty-nine-year-old Brittany Maynard says she is going to die on November 1. She knows that for certain because it's the date she's chosen to end her life. After going to the doctor with painful ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California will become the fifth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives using doctor-prescribed drugs after Gov. Jerry Brown announced ...

Ten years ago, my wife, Brittany Maynard, and I moved to Oregon so she could ensure a gentle death. At age 29, Brittany qualified for a medication prescribed by a physician that allowed her to die ...

PORTLAND — Brittany Maynard stuck by her decision. The woman with brain cancer who revived a national debate about physician-assisted suicide ended her life Saturday by swallowing lethal drugs made ...

The terminally ill woman who revived a national debate about physician-assisted suicide ended her life Saturday by swallowing lethal drugs made available under an Oregon law allowing terminally ill ...