Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying.

Tatiana Andia, who was diagnosed in 2023 with terminal lung cancer, at home in Bogotá, Colombia, where physician-assisted death is legal. But as Ms. Andia was discovering, the existence on paper of a right to control one’s death was only a first step.Credit...

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By Stephanie Nolen

Photographs by Federico Rios Escobar