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- So concerned was Maynard about her story being told the way she wanted it to be told, she sat down with an attorney the week before she died and signed over the rights to her life story to Dan. “No one else can tell my story, Dan, except for you,” she told her husband, according to a new statement released by Diaz Friday.
Oct 24, 2016 · “No one else can tell my story, Dan, except for you,” she told her husband, according to a new statement released by Diaz Friday. “You are the only one that has been here for me the entire ...
- Brittany Maynard's Husband Reflects 6 Years After Her Death
Brittany Maynard's husband, Dan Diaz, is looking back on his...
- How Dan Diaz, Whose Wife Brittany Maynard Chose to End Her ...
Eight years after the death of his wife, Brittany Maynard,...
- Brittany Maynard's Husband Reflects 6 Years After Her Death
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Nov 1, 2020 · Brittany Maynard's husband, Dan Diaz, is looking back on his wife's life and her fight for the right-to-die movement on the sixth anniversary of her death.
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Nov 8, 2022 · Eight years after the death of his wife, Brittany Maynard, Dan Diaz is working to keep her memory alive — and continuing the fight for medical aid-in-dying laws legislation across the U.S.
- Education and Adventure
- A Terminal Diagnosis
- Sharing Her Story
- Transforming The Movement
- A Mother’s Promise
- A New Law
- A Lasting Legacy
Brittany, born November 19, 1984 in Anaheim, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and received her master’s degree in education from the University of California, Irvine School of Education in 2010. During the following four years she traveled extensively throughout the world, did volunteer work in orphanages and educat...
In early 2014, when it became clear to Brittany that her brain tumor was a terminal diagnosis, she began planning to use the Oregon Death with Dignity Act in order to have a peaceful death.California, the state Brittany resided in, did not have a law allowing terminally ill patients to seek a physician’s aid in dying. So, with her family’s help Bri...
Brittany felt that this uprooting and searching for new physicians was both prohibitively expensive and patently unfair to all terminal patients who resided in states without a death with dignity law. She spoke with her mother many times about trying to get a law passed in California. It was this deep sense of injustice that drove Brittany, with so...
Brittany changed the face of the death with dignity movement. Her articulate and intelligent explanation of why she insisted on having some say in the matter of her impending death, and her calm resolve in the face of a ticking-time-bomb brain tumor diagnosis captured the hearts of many viewers. Suddenly, a whole new generation was looking at the i...
Brittany asked her mother, Debbie, to do whatever she could to pass a similar law in California so that others like her would not have to move from their homes and uproot the lives of their loved ones. Debbie vowed to dedicate her time and energy to fulfilling Brittany’s request. In the wake of Brittany’s death, both Debbie and Death with Dignity B...
In October of 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed an actwhich gave the 40 million residents of California the option of assisted dying should they become terminally ill. Debbie shared these words with us on the anniversary of her daughter’s death: Five years later, my broken heart brims with pride. Brittany’s raw courage in the face of an excruciatin...
Thank you, Brittany Maynard, for your bravery and Debbie Ziegler for loving Brittany so much you willingly gave of your time and energy to carry out your daughter’s wishes. Millions have benefited. Deborah Zi...
Maynard and her husband, Dan Diaz, on their wedding day. They had been married a little more than a year when she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
Nov 3, 2020 · Brittany Maynard's husband, Dan Diaz, reflected on her 'death dignity' legacy six years after she chose to end her life while dying of brain cancer.
Nov 3, 2014 · She and her husband moved from California to Oregon, one of five states with so-called "aid-in-dying" laws. Last month, Maynard and her family visited the Grand Canyon. She announced she...