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The end-of-life stories are emotionally powerful, too powerful, in fact, to ignore any longer.
Maya Distasio of Albuquerque recently wrote of how her grandfather, Vincent Distasio, made a grim choice to end his life as he suffered from terminal leukemia.
Distasio wrote in an op-ed published in the Journal on Jan. 29 that her 77-year-old grandfather said it felt like holes were constantly being drilled in his bones.
“Have to make a decision. Too much pain. Hard to write this,” Distasio’s grandfather left in a note found near his body. “I want aid in dying but can’t get it in this state. …”