Choosing to die and being able to act independently while terminally ill is a deliberately narrow opening. Many people cant get through it. They cant swallow well enough. They cant talk well enough. They cant hold the glass or mix the drink on their own. (Helping someone hold the glass is a crime in most of America.) People who do wish to end their lives and shorten their period of great suffering and lossthose people are out of luck in the United States of America.

In Love by Amy Bloom