It was somewhere she would be spending a lot of time and she needed to be comfortable,” Debbie recalls. “I wanted it to be as much like her room at home as possible. With assisted suicide illegal in California at the time, the family moved to Portland, Oregon, where Debbie helped search for a house for her daughter and her husband of two years, Dan Diaz, dealing with difficult details such as finding a bed for Brittany.
“I wanted to hang on to the hope that we would find a treatment.” “There were times when my denial was so strong that it is embarrassing for me,” she says. She loved to travel, to see new places and how other people lived.”īrittany’s diagnosis came after a year of debilitating headaches, and Debbie says her first reaction was to fight to find a cure. Why is everyone trying to make it so?’ Yet, she was also about life. She said to me at one time, ‘Death is not a fairy tale. “My daughter was a woman who didn’t candy-coat anything. But as well as encouraging others to think and talk about death, the book is a way of celebrating Brittany’s life. She celebrated when the Governor of California signed the End of Life Option Act into law in 2015.
Brittany, a teacher, started a “ conversation” about assisted suicide, Debbie says, when she posted a YouTube video shortly before her death (it has now amassed 12 million views), and Debbie is determined to keep the conversation going. Today she is a passionate advocate of the terminally ill’s right to choose to end their life free from pain. Hers has been a journey from denial to acceptance.
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