
Update:
Brittany Maynard’s husband has spoken out about his beautiful wife, 29, who took her life on Sunday after battling terminal brain cancer.
Dan Diaz, 43, was holding Ms Maynard in his arms when she chose to die with dignity by taking a lethal dose of prescribed drugs in her Portland, Oregon, home at the weekend.
Mr Diaz told PEOPLE he first met Ms Maynard in 2007 and thought she looked gorgeous — but soon learned “what a beautiful person she was on the inside”.
“She’s just a great person to know; a good person to be around: attractive, energetic and outgoing and just a personality you really get attracted to,” he said in October, in an interview that has just been published.
“Jokingly, she would say I’d certainly been single long enough because there was an age difference between us,” he told the magazine. “And ‘What’s taken me so long?’ and my answer was, honestly, that I hadn’t met the girl for me until Brittany.”
Brittany Maynard’s mother has also spoken out about her beautiful daughter, who chose to die with dignity on Saturday after battling a terminal illness.
“She was a smart, pretty and charismatic little girl, so she asked to do a lot of things and she generally excelled at all of them,” Debbie Ziegler, 56, told People in an exclusive interview last month.
“I can remember her doing cartwheels and my telling her, ‘I could never do cartwheels,’ but she just worked and worked and worked until she perfected it,” she said of Ms Maynard, 29.