March 11, 2018
Shortly after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at age 56, Nora Harris moved to Oregon from California with her husband, thinking it would be a place where she could die on her own terms.
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In Oregon, pushing to give patients with degenerative diseases the right to die
(Wash Post)
The efforts of some Oregonian lawmakers and activists are among several throughout North America that highlight a quiet but concerted push to bring the right-to-die debates to a new frontier: people with dementia, Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases.