In early July, Betsy Davis sent out invitations to a party she referred to as a "rebirth." "These circumstances are unlike any party you have attended before, requiring emotional stamina, centeredness and openness," her e-mail invitations read, according to AP. Davis, a 41-year-old artist from California, spent the last three years losing control of her body due to the debilitating illness of Als or Lou Gehrig's disease, and had been planning one final gathering that concluded with a physician-assisted suicide. A little over one month before Davis' party, a law was passed in California giving terminally ill patients the option to hasten death.
- 8/12/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
In early July, Betsy Davis sent out invitations to a party she referred to as a "rebirth." "These circumstances are unlike any party you have attended before, requiring emotional stamina, centeredness and openness," her e-mail invitations read, according to AP. Davis, a 41-year-old artist from California, spent the last three years losing control of her body due to the debilitating illness of Als or Lou Gehrig's disease, and had been planning one final gathering that concluded with a physician-assisted suicide. A little over one month before Davis' party, a law was passed in California giving terminally ill patients the option to hasten death.
- 8/12/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
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