Who Decides When a Life Is No Longer Worth Living?
When the cameras were off, Lori Kehoe asked an assisted-suicide advocate a disturbing question, "Could society ever have an interest in the death of someone who doesn't want to die?"
According to Lori, his answer was immediate: of course.
It's a chilling exchange that raises a much larger question: when does the right to die become the duty to die?
In this episode of Dear Jane, Lori Kehoe of New York State Right to Life joins Dear Jane to examine New York's newly enacted assisted-suicide law and the troubling questions surrounding autonomy, coercion, and the value of human life.
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