California's End of Life Option: More Peaceful Deaths or Moral Quicksand? | Sojourners

California's End of Life Option: More Peaceful Deaths or Moral Quicksand?

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Somewhere in California on June 9, a terminally ill person may lift a glass and drink a lethal slurry of pulverized prescription pills dissolved in water.

And then die.

That’s the day the nation’s most populous state implements a law, passed in 2015, making physician-assisted dying accessible to 1 in 6 terminally ill Americans, according to its national backers, Compassion & Choices.

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