Andrea, an attractive thirty-nine-year-old woman, has been dealing with cancer for five years. She has gone through chemotherapy and radiation, procedures with severe side effects that debilitated her for months and seemed to have aged her by ten years. She has, nevertheless, recuperated enough to return to her job as director of her city's planning commission. However, Andrea's latest medical exam revealed that the cancer had spread to her bones and brain. Her oncologist has recommended further radiation treatments and chemotherapy, as well as a bone marrow transplant. Andrea is now facing even more torturous treatments as well as a very poor survival rate. After agonizing deliberation, Andrea confides in her physician that she is tired and sick of fighting, and that she wants his help to end her life. She has no living relatives to help her except a brother with whom she has no communication. Because she fears the.....
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