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Topic: Assisted Suicide

The author with Cai Emmons, wearing one of Cai's scarves. (Photo illustration by Salon/Photo courtesy of the author/Getty Images)

The comfort in my dying friend's scarves

Miriam Gershow
Rainn Wilson as Michael and Kate Winslet as Jennifer in "Blackbird." (Photo by Parisa Taghizadeh, Courtesy of Screen Media)

Rainn Wilson on his #blessed life

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Rachel Lefevre and Caroline Dhavernas in "Mary Kills People" (Lifetime/Christos Kalohoridis)

"Mary Kills People" loses some spirit

Melanie McFarland
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Have your funeral before you die

Mary Elizabeth Williams

is right to die a freedom?

Carrie Sheffield
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teen tething change law?

David Rossman - The Conversation
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Meet Bad Cripple

Ann Neumann
(Reuters/Kimberly White)

Joanna Rothkopf
Brittany Maynard (AP/Maynard Family)

Joanna Rothkopf
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Mary Elizabeth Williams
A photo of the author, circa 1982.

Let's talk about dying

Lillian B. Rubin
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Natasha Lennard
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