• Blog

    Posted on March 26th, 2009

    Written by Judy

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    Ending Your Own Life: Debbie Purdy

    They used to call it “assisted suicide”; but I understand from certain lawyer friends who are at the forefront of the battle that this is no longer an acceptable term. Terminally ill people in desperate straits who wish to shorten their lives are not really committing suicide, in the opinion of my lawyer friends.  And [...]

  • Advice

    Posted on March 19th, 2009

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    Preparing to End My Life?

    Dear Judy,
    I notice you never cover this subject, maybe because you’re scared. Like Debbie Purdy, the British woman who was recently written about in the New York Times, I have MS [multiple sclerosis]– the worst kind, which is primary progressive. I too am in my late 40’s, and I don’t want to live this way.
    For [...]