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Quoted: Ira Byock on Liberal Embrace of Assisted Suicide

6/9/2015
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“A healthy society doesn’t force its members to choose between suffering and suicide,” says the Geisel School of Medicine’s Ira Byock in a Politico opinion piece on liberal politics and assisted suicide.

Byock is an emeritus professor of medicine and of community and family medicine at Geisel.

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