By Sky News US Team
A 29-year-old woman with terminal brain cancer who plans to end her life next month has hit out at a palliative care expert who said she was being exploited by an advocacy group.
After being diagnosed this year with an aggressive tumour, Brittany Maynard relocated with her husband to Oregon, which has a death-with-dignity law.
Ms Maynard, who plans to end her life on 1 November with lethal drugs before the cancer kills her, has been campaigning for expanded assisted dying laws in the US.
Dr Ira Byock, of the Providence Institute for Human Caring, said Ms Maynard is "being exploited" by an advocacy group, Compassion & Choices, and now feels compelled to die based on public expectations.
But the dying woman said the claim is "utterly false", denying she now feels pressure to end her life because of all the publicity.
"I DO NOT, this is MY choice, I am not that weak," she wrote in a statement on the website of Compassion & Choices, an end-of-life non-profit organisation.
"The day is my choice, I have the right to change my mind at any time, it is my right.
"I am very confident about this."
Ms Maynard and her husband have relocated from their home in the San Francisco Bay area because California is not one of the five US states - Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont and New Mexico - that can help terminally ill people to die.
She has said next month she will take a pill provided by doctors that will allow her to die painlessly as she is surrounded by her 42-year-old husband, Dan Diaz, and loved ones.
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