
“Knowing they had a backup if things took an unexpected turn offered these patients great relief. That didn’t mean they saw life as expendable.”
“Knowing they had a backup if things took an unexpected turn offered these patients great relief. That didn’t mean they saw life as expendable.”
It’s time that we revise and refine our cultural lexicon around this emergent end-of-life practice. A medically assisted death definitively warrants a linguistic and conceptual category of its own.