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Assisted dying is not the easy way out

  • Written by Anita Hannig, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University
The stress over their ability to swallow can provoke a great deal of anxiety in patients.eyepark/Shutterstock.com

One in every five Americans now lives in a state with legal access to a medically assisted death. In theory, assisted dying laws allow patients with a terminal prognosis to hasten the end of their life, once their suffering has overcome...

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