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The Disconcerting Truth About Assistive Suicide

Most Americans or the majority of Americans actually support it until you start using a word like suicide. There's this one article by a British physician who argues that that egg-onal um gasping reflex apparently when part of the apnea is that your body has a reflex where you gasp for air and it's really disconcerting to family members even though they don't think that you're suffering.

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