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  2. Letter to Massachusetts Legislature on "An Act Relative to Death with Dignity", H. 3884, 2012

Letter to Massachusetts Legislature on "An Act Relative to Death with Dignity", H. 3884, 2012

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 There is no bright line between a disability considered terminal and one that is not. H.3884 offers lethal prescriptions to people whose conditions “will, within reasonable medical judgment, produce death within six months.”5 Such predictions are notoriously unreliable.6 Many people defy the odds and live on with their disabilities for many years.

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