Assisted dying is not the easy way out
- Written by Anita Hannig, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University
The stress over their ability to swallow can provoke a great deal of anxiety in patients.eyepark/Shutterstock.comOne in every five Americans now lives in a state with legal access to a medically assisted death. In theory, assisted dying laws allow patients with a terminal prognosis to hasten the end of their life, once their suffering has overcome...
