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Physician Assisted Suicide
A smoker since age 19, Lovelle Spriva found out five years ago that she had inoperable lung cancer. Radiation and chemotherapy slowed the cancer’s spread but could not stop it. The doctor warned her that she was likely to die within six months, making her eligible for Oregon’s unique 10 year old, “ Death with Dignity Act”. One month later she signed and followed all the guidelines of the Oregon act, to make the “Death with Dignity Act” active. Lovelle’s next decision was to decide which day would be the day that she would set her soul free from her body. Lovelle told her mother that she felt at peace and that she was ready to go, thinking about the her medical symptoms that were advancing.
Now, because of the tumors in her neck and throat, it became hard for her to take the first two pills that would prepare her stomach to handle the medication. Lovelle had been suffering for awhile now; she had become short of breath, signs of......

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