Journalists, medical organizations, the public: No one agrees on what assisted suicide is—or isn’t.
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In December, the New York Times published a feature titled “Should You Be Able to Ask a Doctor to Help You Die?” It included the cases of several people who had chosen assisted dying, including Ron Curtis, who dealt with a degenerative spinal disease; Aaron Wade, who suffered from deep depression for three decades; and Denise de Ruijter, a young woman diagnosed with autism who had attempted suicide multiple times.
