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Two Young Women, Two Very Different Deaths
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
On the same day that Brittany Maynard chose to end her own life, a 17 year-old cheerleader named Nina Poeta also succumbed to a brain tumor but only after waging a valiant fight that inspired an entire community.
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A young seminarian with incurable brain cancer is praying that 29 year-old Brittany Maynard, who is suffering the same plight and publicly announced plans to take her life with prescription drugs on November 1, is asking her to choose to fight instead so that her life and witness can be an example and inspiration to others.
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