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Death as a social privilege? How aid-in-dying laws may be revealing a new health care divide

  • Written by Jill D. Weinberg, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tufts University
imageDebbie Ziegler, mother of the late Brittany Maynard, in Sacramento in September 2015, encouraging the passage of California's End-of-Life Options Act. Maynard, who had brain cancer, had to move to Oregon so she could end her life legally in 2014. AP Photo/Carl Costas

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