“An American woman with terminal cancer has taken her own life after promising to do so in a video that went viral.
“Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old with brain cancer, made headlines earlier this month when a video of her saying she would take her own life was seen by millions of web users.
“A spokesman for Compassion & Choices – an end-of-life activist group that supported Ms Maynard – said she died peacefully in her home on November 1.
“Earlier this year Ms Maynard was given six months to live and told her death would be painful because of the aggressive nature of her cancer.”
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