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Anita Hannig

May 14
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Medical Aid In Dying Is Still Called “Assisted Suicide”; An Anthropologist Explains The Problem With That

By | Assisted Suicide, Choice, Completed Life, Death, Death With Dignity, Death With Dignity Act, Dying, Grief, Medical Aid in Dying, Mental Illness, Oregon Death with Dignity Act, PAD, Rational Death, Rational Suicide, Religion, Right-to-Die Laws, Suffering and Death, Suicide, The Right to Die | 5 Comments

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.

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