This 29-Year-Old will End Her Life on November 1 [VIDEO]

Voicing the right of terminally ill patients to embrace death with dignity, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard has decided to take the lethal pill Nov. 1.

In a CNN editorial, released Oct. 9, Maynard narrated her story. After suffering from unbearable headaches for months, on New Year's Day this year she learnt she had brain cancer.

"In the beginning I hoped for everything. First I hoped that they had just the wrong X-rays, the wrong set of scans; it was all just a big clerical mishap. Your brain will do really strange things to you when you don't want to believe something. You will come up with fairytales," said Maynard's mother Debbie Ziegler, Huffington Post reports.

Nine days after the initial diagnoses, she underwent partial craniotomy and partial resection of her temporal lobe. The surgeries were aimed at stopping the growth of the tumor.

But, in April the tumor had resurfaced and the cancer was more aggressive - Stage IV glioblastoma multiforme. Doctors informed her that she won't live more than six months.

"Because my tumor is so large, doctors prescribed full brain radiation. I read about the side effects: The hair on my scalp would have been singed off. My scalp would be left covered with first-degree burns. My quality of life, as I knew it, would be gone. After months of research, my family and I reached a heartbreaking conclusion: There is no treatment that would save my life, and the recommended treatments would have destroyed the time I had left," Maynard wrote in the editorial.   

She selected Nov. 1 as her date to die because she wanted to celebrate her husband's birthday - which is on Oct. 26 - with him for the last time.

Maynard is a volunteer supporter for United States' leading end-of-life choice organizations, Compassion and Choices. She, along with her family, recently shifted base from California to Oregon as it is one of the five states that allows assisted suicides for terminally ill patients. The other states that allow the same are New Mexico, Montana, Washington, and Vermont. Oregon's Death with Dignity Act passed in 1997 and has allowed for 1,173 prescriptions, along with 752 deaths through medication ever since, Life News reports.

Maynard believes that "death with dignity" is an ethical choice because it allows the patients to change their mind right up to the last minute. She made clear that unless her condition improves dramatically, she would stand strong on her decision to die on Nov. 1.