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Topic: Death with Dignity

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
Terri Schiavo, Jeb Bush (AP/Reuters/Deanna Dent/Photo montage by Salon)

Jeb's awful "deep faith" ad

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Ricky Gervais (AP/NBC, Paul Drinkwater)

Gervais on the right to die

Joanna Rothkopf
Ai-Jen Poo (Michele Asselin)

America's "elder boom"

Katie McDonough
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Mary Elizabeth Williams
Brittany Maynard (AP/Maynard Family)

Joanna Rothkopf
Brittany Maynard (AP/Maynard Family)

Joanna Rothkopf
(Compassion & Choices)

Joanna Rothkopf
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Brittany Maynard (CBS News)

A death postponed

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Brittany Maynard (CNN)

We need a better way of death

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(YouTube)

This woman will die on Nov. 1

Joanna Rothkopf
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"Life is 100% mortality"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Mary Elizabeth Williams
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