By Sky News US Team
A terminally ill woman whose right-to-die campaigning rekindled a debate across America has ended her own life.
Brittany Maynard, 29, on Saturday swallowed lethal drugs made available under Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide law.
She "passed peacefully in her bed surrounded by close family and loved ones", said the advocacy group Compassion & Choices.
Ms Maynard was diagnosed with brain cancer on New Year's Day of this year and was later told she had six months to live.
She said she planned to take prescribed medication to die when her pain became unbearable.
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Gallery: Brittany Maynard: Life In Pictures
Brittany Maynard as a child with her mother Debbie
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Ms Maynard met Dan Diaz in April 2007
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The couple married in September 2012
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Ms Maynard was diagnosed in January with a glioblastoma brain tumour. She began campaigning for the right to die
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Before dying, Maynard tried to live life as fully as she could. Last month she went to the Grand Canyon with her family
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With her mother Debbie at the Grand Canyon, which had been on Ms Maynard's 'bucket list'
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Her husband supported her decision and the couple moved to Oregon to take advantage of the state's doctor-assisted suicide law
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Ms Maynard ended her life on 1 November
She and her husband moved from the San Francisco Bay area to Oregon this year to take advantage of the state's law that allows terminally ill residents to end their lives with the assistance of a physician.
She told journalists she planned to die on 1 November, shortly after her husband's birthday, but reserved the right to move the date forward or push it back. Days ago, she said she wanted to delay taking her life.
Sean Crowley, a spokesman for Compassion & Choices, said Ms Maynard "suffered increasingly frequent and longer seizures, severe head and neck pain, and stroke-like symptoms".
"As symptoms grew more severe, she chose to abbreviate the dying process by taking the aid-in-dying medication she had received months ago," he said.
Ms Maynard had two degrees and an adventuresome spirit during her short life.
She taught at orphanages in Nepal and also spent time in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Costa Rica. She climbed Kilimanjaro a month before marrying Dan Diaz in September 2012.
Before dying, Ms Maynard tried to live life as fully as she could. She and her husband took a trip to the Grand Canyon last month - fulfilling a wish on Ms Maynard's "bucket list".
Working with Compassion & Choices, Ms Maynard used her story to speak out for the right of terminally ill people like herself to end their lives on their own terms.
But some criticised her choice.
Opponents of assisted suicide say some people who are ill, especially among the elderly, might be unduly influenced by people close to them to end their lives and that other ways exist to ease the suffering of the terminally ill.
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