Paula Ritchie wasn’t dying, but under Canada’s new rules, she qualified for a medically assisted death. Was that kindness or cruelty?

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Even as we die, our bodies are capable of more than devolution from illness.

The writer Kathryn Schulz on losing her father at the same time as finding her life partner, and how to hold radically different feelings at once.

What others should learn from Joe Biden.

Medical aid in dying laws are flawed.