In the West, assisted dying is rapidly becoming legal and accepted

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SHORTLY BEFOREÁngel Hernández handed his wife the glass of barbiturates that would kill her, he asked her once again if she wanted to die. “The sooner the better,” she replied. Ravaged as María José Carrasco’s body was by multiple sclerosis, she struggled to swallow the poison. In the end she forced it down through a straw.

This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Death on demand”

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