Aja Riggs battles her cancer, but she's realistic The question before the court in New Mexico is absurdly simple and yet impossibly complex. What is the meaning of "assisting suicide"? If a terminally ill patient refuses a ventilator or a feeding tube and the physician yields to that decision, is that assisting suicide? If the patient is in excruciating pain and requests total sedation and no nutrition or fluids, can the doctor be held accountable for his death? What if the patient seeks a prescription from her physician so that when the pain of dying is overwhelming she can seek the ultimate relief on her own? Two oncologists from the University of New Mexico Health Science Center and a...
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