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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck
In today's podcast we set the stage with the story of Dax Cowart, who in 1973 was a 25 year old man horribly burned in a freak accident. Two thirds of his body was burned, most of his fingers were amputated, and he lost vision in both eyes. During his 14 month recovery Dax repeatedly demanded that he be allowed to die. The requests were ignored. After, he said he was both glad to be alive, and that the doctors should have respected his wish to be allowed to die.
But that was 1973, you might say. We don't have such issues today, do we?
Louise Aronson's recent perspective about her mother in…
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