I especially appreciate that this young woman allowed her story of how she is working with terminal brain cancer to be published in the widely read People Magazine, that her entire family supports her decisions, even to the point of moving to Oregon where her choice to die consciously could be honored, and that she states clearly the difference between her choice to die before the predicted pain becomes unbearable and what we tend to label, and judge accordingly, “suicide.”

Terminally Ill 29-Year-Old Woman: Why I’m Choosing to Die on My Own Terms.