Paying My Respects to Brittany Maynard
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29 year old Brittany Maynard, dying of a fatal brain cancer, took her own life with the help of the Compassionate Care Act in Oregon and her family who followed her wishes to the very end. Some religious fanatics think she took the easy way out so I wrote this for them. May reading this allow at least some of them to feel something besides their own religiously contaminated indignation.
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