From beyond the grave: Brittany Maynard appears in new video three weeks after her death
Oregon: A new video featuring Brittany Maynard, the cancer patient who voluntarily ended her life instead of a painful death that would have faced as she was suffering from terminal cancer.
In the video, Maynard calls for an extension of the right to die in all American states. She died on November 1 when she was 29 years of age.
The video was released on what would have been her 30th birthday by the organisation that Maynard worked for as an activist.
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In January, Maynard was given six months to live and told her death would be painful because of the aggressive nature of her cancer.
She had been trying for a first child with her husband Dan Diaz at the time, but gave up due to her disease.
Maynard and her husband, who had just married when she began having severe headaches, moved from their home in California to Oregon, one of a handful of US states with a "right-to-die" law.
A doctor could therefore prescribe her the medication she needs to end her own life, surrounded by her family in the bedroom she shares with her husband.
On Thursday, she had released a new video in which she said she might temporarily delay her appointment with a self-administered cocktail of potentially deadly drugs.
But the delay was a short one.
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Her story has made headlines around the world, and she was featured on the cover of last week's People magazine in the United States.
Maynard has in recent weeks and months been working to tick off items on a "bucket list" of what she wants to do before she dies -- including travelling to the Grand Canyon last week.
Watch: The video released by the organisation that Maynard worked for as an activist
