A 29-year-old woman with terminal cancer says she has completed the things she wanted to in her life and will go ahead with her plan to take her life on Saturday in Oregon.
Brittany Maynard, visited the Grand Canyon this week, according to a USA Today story, marking off the last thing on the "bucket list" she made after she was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer.
"The Canyon was breathtakingly beautiful, and I was able to enjoy my time with the two things I love most: my family and nature," Maynard wrote in a blog post last week. She also described a seizure she suffered while there.
Maynard's story became public when she began to talk about her decision to take her life by choosing assisted suicide. In a YouTube video from Oct. 6, Maynard described her diagnosis ( "a terrible, terrible way to die"), and explained why she moved from California to Oregon where assisted suicide is legal.
"I think until anyone has walked a mile in my shoes and knows what they're facing and has felt the -- like, just bone-splitting headaches that I get sometimes, or the seizures, or the inability to speak, or the moments where I'm looking at my husband's face and I can't think of his name," she told CBS News.
Maynard said she plans to end her life Saturday with her family and a friend who is a physician by her side.
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