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I'll raise the ugly issue - medical care for terminally ill people is very expensive, and we live with a health care system where people die of treatable, curable conditions because they lack health insurance and miss out on basic medical care.

We should have the [b][i]choice[/i][/b] to decide when an how to die. When my mother was terminally ill, she would have happily chosen to release her life to offer care to others. She required a great deal of care and expense to keep her life tolerable, but she was 'required' to stay alive (short of starving herself to death).

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