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The Inhumanity of Laws against Doctor-Assisted Suicide

By Michael A. LaFerrara

Dec 03, 2014
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On November 1, twenty-nine-year-old Brittany Maynard, suffering from terminal brain cancer, took her own life under Oregon’s assisted suicide law. California, Maynard’s home state, doesn’t allow doctor-assisted suicide. So she moved to Oregon, where she could legally die on her own terms.

Currently, assisted suicide is unequivocally legal in only three s…

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