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

[Jay Weigel]

Sounds like as good a way as any to go, as long as you know you're going
anyway.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:16 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> [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.
>