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When your client wants to die but you believe they're not competent to choose

I'm a public defender and my client wants to give up his appeals and be executed, but I think he's mentally ill and not making a rational decision.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

She's facing the collision between client autonomy and professional judgment when the stakes are literally life and death.

Worth thinking about

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