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Cathy Lynn Grossman, senior national correspondent for Religion News Service, talks with R&E host Bob Abernethy about the case of 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, who was given six months to live after being diagnosed with advanced brain cancer. She made headlines when she pledged to end her life with the help of a doctor rather than continuing to endure her debilitating symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the five states where it\u2019s legal, physician-assisted dying involves rigorous regulations, including how long a person has lived there, says Cathy Lynn Grossman, senior national correspondent for Religion News Service. \u201cBrittany Maynard moved from California to Oregon, where it\u2019s legal specifically to qualify for\u2026a prescription for lethal drugs. The person takes the drugs themselves if and when they choose to, and not everyone who gets the prescription ever uses it.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":24508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[17844,3316,1385,4617],"class_list":["post-24498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-brittany-maynard","tag-cancer","tag-death","tag-suicide","topics-ethics","topics-health-and-medicine"],"yoast_head":"\nPhysician-Assisted Death<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Physician-Assisted Death\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" 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