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right to die  

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  • Supreme Court rulings that deal with the rights of persons to end their own lives. Since about the 1970s, advances in medicine have allowed the “human body [to be kept] alive for longer than any reasonable person would want to inhabit it,” as Justice Antonin Scalia put it. [Source: Student's Guide to the Supreme Court; Right to Die]

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