Sigfrid Lundberg / Flickr “If you ask anybody in this room, ‘How would you prefer to die?’ most people will say ‘I would prefer to die in my sleep, not even aware that it’s happening.’” Dan Diaz had to pause. He was getting choked up then, speaking to a crowded room at a panel for the Aspen Ideas Festival’s Spotlight Health session, about the life—and death—of his wife Brittany Maynard.