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Brain Cancer Will Likely Kill Me, But There’s No Way I’ll Kill Myself

Like Brittany Maynard, I have extremely aggressive brain cancer. But I’m not downing any kill pills.

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Brittany Maynard Is Dead, But Her Enablers Seek More Victims

Here’s the 411 on Compassion & Choices, the suicide advocacy organization that used young, suffering, and now-deceased Brittany Maynard as a public relations tool.

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How It Feels When Your Epileptic Child Gets To Make A Wish

It’s a joy that your child can receive a once-in-a-lifetime gift, but a grief that the reason for it is her life-threatening illness.

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Our Love Story Has Taught Us Not To Take Marriage For Granted

My husband’s illness robbed me not only of the strong man I had leaned on for all of our married life, but also of the little things I had somehow taken for granted.

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Belgium Lets A Legal Minor Euthanize Himself

This is the first reported instance of a child taking advantage of Belgium’s laxer stance after legislators allowed child euthanasia in 2014.

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Black Americans Rightly Worry Euthanasia Will Target The Vulnerable, Like Them

Politicians are more concerned with cutting health-care costs than they are with providing quality end-of-life care, says DC activist Leona Redmond: ‘’It’s really aimed at old black people. It really...

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Podcast: Man Who Beat Terminal Illness Diagnosis Explains How To Fight...

Join Mollie Hemingway on The Federalist Radio Hour as she talks with J.J. Hanson and Dr. Brian Callister from the Patient’s Rights Action Fund.

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Why It’s Incoherent To Support Euthanasia And Oppose Suicide

Society teaches it is unacceptable for someone to choose to terminate his or her life when he or she is a teenager enduring bullying. It’s impossible to believe this and support euthanasia.

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Yanking Life Support From UK Baby Demonstrates Dangers Of Socialized Medicine

Against his parents’ wishes, Britain is preventing an ill infant from getting care, and the legal and social environment in the United States isn’t far away.

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UK Authorities Ran The Clock Out On Charlie Gard’s Life

Having denied Charlie’s parents the right to seek treatment, then wasting time through a protracted legal process, the defendants in the case effectively ran out the clock on Charlie.

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7 Years Ago, Doctors Gave Mom Days To Live. Assisted Suicide Would Have Made...

What happened to my mom happens far more often then we realize. It’s one reason assisted-suicide laws are so dangerous.

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Hawaii Becomes Seventh State To Legalize Doctor-Assisted Self-Murder

Hawaii is now the seventh U.S. jurisdiction to make physician-assisted suicide legal. Its new self-murder law takes effect next year.

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More People Should Consider Barbara Bush’s Medical Choices For Her Last Days

In a world where we will do everything possible for a few extra hours, the question of ‘should we?’ can be extraordinarily hard for some to grapple with. Barbara Bush showed how.

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In Heartbreaking Letter, Charles Krauthammer Announces He Has Weeks To Live

'My doctors tell me their best estimate is that I have only a few weeks left to live. This is the final verdict. My fight is over.'

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Here’s Why I Choose Life Instead Of Ending It Like My Dad Did

My husband, my writing, my career—a few years ago, I thought all of it was never in the cards for me. I nearly allowed myself to miss out on all of it.

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The Netherlands Now Requires No Terminal Illness For Elderly People To...

In the case of the 84-year-old woman, the Life’s End Clinic doctor administered a fatal injection just one month after meeting her for the first time.

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Doctors And Judges Shouldn’t Have More Authority Over Tinslee Lewis’ Life...

Why, now that doctors can do so much with advancements in modern medicine, are they turning their backs on the patients who need them most, and saying it’s for their own good?

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Pro-Life Doesn’t Mean Artificially Keeping Tinslee Lewis Alive Forever

Cases like Tinslee’s are not easy for anybody. Medical interventions are prolonging her death and causing her further pain and suffering without the hope of improving her condition.

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How Assisted Suicide Quickly Evolves Into An Unfettered Right To Die

In nearly every country and state that has legalized some form of assisted suicide, the pattern is the same: A narrow suicide exception broadens until everyone has the right to commission their own...

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