New California Law Eases Aid-in-Dying Process [californiahealthline.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/2/2112:25 PM

By Bernard J. Wolfson, Photo: E+/Getty Images, California Healthline, December 2, 2021

During her three-year battle with breast cancer, my wife, Leslie, graciously endured multiple rounds of horrifically toxic treatment to eke out more time with our two young children.

But after 18 cancer-free months, the disease returned with a vengeance in June 2003. It fractured her bones and invaded her spinal canal, bathing her brain in malignancy.

During the final six months, as she lay on her home hospice bed in constant pain, attached to a morphine drip around-the-clock while losing her eyesight and withering to a skeleton, the idea of ending her suffering by ending her life didn’t even enter into our conversations.

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