--- description: The 29-year-old woman, who was diagnosed with brain cancer, explains her state of mind two days before her scheduled death title: Terminally Ill Brittany Maynard Releases Emotional New Video image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7b8f8bf42e1f424/6987635aa988caa30d6aa18d/death-with-dignity-ad_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Health Care](/tag/health-care/) ## Health Care Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Terminally Ill Brittany Maynard May Not End Her Life, After All by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 30, 2014 5:56 AM CUT  This undated file photo provided by the Maynard family shows Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old terminally ill woman who plans to take her own life under Oregon’s death with dignity law. This undated file photo provided by the Maynard family shows Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old terminally ill woman who plans to take her own life under Oregon’s death with dignity law.AP by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 30, 2014 5:56 AM CUT A terminally ill 29-year-old woman who has said she plans to [commit physician-assisted suicide](http://time.com/3506524/brittany-maynard-oregon-right-to-die/ "undefined") on Nov. 1 implies in a heart-wrenching new [video](http://www.people.com/article/brittany-maynard-death-with-dignity-Nov-1 "undefined") that she may not go through with it in the end. In the six-minute clip, released with advocacy group Compassion & Choices, Brittany Maynard says she may or may not choose to die on that date, _People reports_. “So if Nov. 2 comes along and I’ve passed, I hope my family is still proud of me and the choices I made,” says Maynard, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given six months to live last spring. [Read more at _People_](http://www.people.com/article/brittany-maynard-death-with-dignity-Nov-1 "undefined") _Read next:_ [_Dear Brittany Maynard: Our Lives Are Worth Living, Even With Brain Cancer_](http://time.com/3532100/brittany-maynard-brain-cancer-right-to-die/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3547454/brittany-maynard-releases-emotional-new-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3547454/brittany-maynard-releases-emotional-new-video/"},"headline":"Terminally Ill Brittany Maynard May Not End Her Life, After All","datePublished":"2014-10-30T05:56:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:06:33.405Z","description":"The 29-year-old woman, who was diagnosed with brain cancer, explains her state of mind two days before her scheduled death","url":"https://time.com/3547454/brittany-maynard-releases-emotional-new-video/","keywords":["Health Care","video","oregon","Brittany Maynard"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7b8f8bf42e1f424/6987635aa988caa30d6aa18d/death-with-dignity-ad_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7b8f8bf42e1f424/6987635aa988caa30d6aa18d/death-with-dignity-ad_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Death With Dignity Advocate","caption":"Death With Dignity Advocate","creditText":"AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/health-care/","name":"Health Care"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3547454/brittany-maynard-releases-emotional-new-video/","name":"Terminally Ill Brittany Maynard May Not End Her Life, After All"}}]}] ```