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When assisted dying requests reveal family paralysis

My 90-year-old father keeps asking me to help him die and it's legal here but I cannot tell if I'm protecting him or abandoning him by saying no.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The weight of irreversible decisions about another's suffering exceeds individual capacity.

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