He killed himself. She helped him. It should have been easier.
"Death with dignity" laws in the U.S. should be expanded — including to patients with dementia.
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"Death with dignity" laws in the U.S. should be expanded — including to patients with dementia.
'Death with dignity' laws make assisted suicide possible in the U.S., but those laws don’t apply if you’re suffering from Alzheimer’s.
After an Alzheimer's diagnosis, novelist Amy Bloom's husband asked for help to die with dignity. Sipress endured 25 years of rejection before finally landing a gig with The New Yorker in 1998.
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Novelist Amy Bloom talks about how, at her husband's insistence, she traveled with him to Zurich so he could legally terminate his life. Her new memoir is In Love.