Nonfiction | September 01, 2009
Exit Strategies: Living Wills and Dying
Roberta Kalechofsky
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The only thing I was certain about was that if unplugged, she should immediately be euthanized and not be subjected to starvation. To die by starvation is to exit life with a curse. Ironically, modern medicine has arrived at a place where its responsibility to life is sometimes through the door of death.
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