Compassion and Choices
Director of legal affairs for Compassion and Choices.
PROFILE
Kevin Diaz
Guest
FROM Kevin Diaz
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Should terminally ill patients be able to get prescriptions to end their lives? It’s been one year since California enacted its aid-in-dying legislation. More than 100 people have used it to receive prescription drugs to end their lives. We meet the wife of a terminally ill man with cancer who did that. A group is also suing to repeal the fledgling law. We hear arguments on both sides of the debate.
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