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SAN FRANCISCO — Dan Swangard knows what death looks like. As a physician, he has seen patients die in hospitals, hooked to morphine drips and ...
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Doctors and Cancer Patients Sue California for Right to Die
A group of cancer patients filed a lawsuit Wednesday in California seeking to overturn a law that prosecutes physicians who prescribe end-of-life medication to mentally ...
Read More »Brittany Maynard, Terminal Cancer Patient, Wants National Death With Dignity Act (VIDEO)
Terminally ill 29-year-old Brittany Maynard has released a new video as part of her joint campaign with Compassion & Choices to expand access to death with dignity ...
Read More »Terminal Cancer Patient Completes Bucket List, Ready For Death With Dignity
By Brad Broker Brittany Maynard, the terminally-ill woman who moved to Oregon to legally take her own life under the state’s Death with Dignity Act, ...
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