Assisted Suicide: Consider the Deadly Context

In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Oregon, I have a piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle addressing the context in which assisted suicide would be conducted. Context can be everything, and in a regime of legalized assisted suicide, it would be deadly.

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