My Sister Euthanized Herself. She Shouldn't Have Had to Do It the Way She Did.

Theda's suffering was physical, but it was also social-it affected our family and community. Nothing helped. The only change, despite so much effort, was that it got worse.

Technically, this would classify the death she wished for as a suicide. But ethically-and within the family-we understood it differently.

Read at Slate Magazine