[Magdalen] "California woman holds party before killing herself"

[M J _Mike_ Logsdon]

[I think "killing herself" is a bit crass, but at least they corrected it in the final sentence.]

California woman holds party before killing herself
By JULIE WATSON
>From Associated Press
August 11, 2016 2:53 PM EST 
 
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California woman with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, held a two-day party for her friends and relatives to say goodbye before taking her life with a dose of prescribed drugs.

Betsy Davis, 41, became one of the first Californians to make use a new state law allowing doctor-assisted suicide. Four other states have such laws, with Oregon the first in 1997.

Davis shared her plans with her guests, giving them a detailed schedule for the weekend that included the hour she planned to slip into a coma.

There were cocktails. There was pizza from her favorite local joint. There was a screening of one of her favorite movies. And then her friends said their goodbyes and left.

Davis was wheeled out to a canopy bed on a hillside and took her own life.