[Mb-civic] Your Death Should Be Your Choice

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Your Death Should Be Your Choice 
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If the right to die is consistently denied, what does freedom mean?

By Crispin Sartwell
Crispin Sartwell's most recent book is "Six Names of Beauty" (Routledge, 2004).

March 9 2005

My father died in 1980 of emphysema, a disease that resembles drowning over a period of years. When the time came to send him to the hospital for the fifth session of useless, torturous intensive care, he, my stepmother, my brother and I decided it was enough. 

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