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May 31, 2023
Can Americans Really Make a Free Choice About Dying?
In a country that treats disabled people like expensive burdens and that teaches people to hate and fear disabilities, activists argue that true bodily autonomy is not possible.
Sara Luterman
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March 25, 2022
A Last Gift of Love: One Way to Switzerland, Business Class
In America, we allow our pets more dignity in death than we allow people.
Jack Willis and Mary Pleshette Willis
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October 8, 2015
At Catholic Hospitals, a ‘Right to Life’ but Not a Right to Death
Five states permit doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives, but Catholic hospitals still refuse to let their patients “die with dignity.”
Katherine Stewart
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March 12, 2013
C. Everett Koop, 1916–2013
From ideologue to reality-based public servant, the evolution of a fascinating man.
Rick Perlstein
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June 16, 2011
Catholic Church Amps Up Its Fight Against Aid in Dying
If the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has its way, patients across the country will suffer a broad-spectrum loss of rights.
Ann Neumann
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January 13, 2011
Antichoice at the End of Life
Just after Christmas, the “death panel” meme was resurrected by healthcare opponents who worked the same network that has been fighting legal abortion since the 1970s.
Ann Neumann
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October 12, 2009
Opting Out
Jack Kevorkian is leading the movement to allow people to take death in their own hands.
Frank A. Oski