Terminally ill Betsy Davis holds party before ending her life | Daily Mail Online
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Summary:
"Betsy Davis, 41, became one of the first Californians to take a lethal dose of drugs under the state's new doctor-assisted suicide law
Davis worked out a detailed schedule for the gathering on the weekend of July 23-24
The ALS sufferer, diagnosed in 2013, had one rule for the gathering: no crying
The artist could no longer stand, brush her teeth or scratch an itch and her speech slurred speech
Davis took a combination of morphine, pentobarbital and chloral hydrate on an outdoor canopy bed and died four hours later and the end of the weekend..."