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Iwish my grandmother had been offered a medically assisted death. I know she would have chosen it. In 2014, I spent a month watching her die in palliative care following a terminal cancer diagnosis. We listened to Czech opera, and she kept a photo of her sister by her morphine drip. When volunteers asked if she wanted to play bingo with other patients in the common area, she said, “No, I am trying to die.”
