Brittany Maynard
Courtesy Brittany Maynard
PEOPLE staff writer Nicki Egan first wrote about Brittany Maynard in a story published on PEOPLE.com Oct 6. In addition to two telephone interviews with Maynard, Egan also spoke with Maynard's mother, Debbie Ziegler, and husband, Dan Diaz, as part of her ongoing coverage of this emotional story. Below, Egan reflects on the Brittany she came to know.
It's hard to believe that just a month ago I spoke with Brittany Maynard for the first time.
And now she's gone.
It was not an easy decision for her to go public, but she so passionately believed death with dignity should be an option for terminal patients that she put herself out there.
"As much as I'm very introverted and hesitant to give interviews, when the opportunity presented itself I had to do it," she told me in our first interview Oct. 3.
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