Do I kill my father? (a woman decides whether to allow a physician to practice euthanasia on her father)

Commonweal | June 19, 1998| | Copyright

I was standing with the doctor in the kitchen of my father's house, leaning against the stove, staring at the big moths and butterflies framed and mounted on the kitchen wall. It was a sweet July morning, the kind when my father would have been sitting in a lawn chair outside, reading the paper, greeting his neighbors. I was a thousand miles from home, and I missed my children.

"Would you like me to do something?" the doctor asked me. "Is it time?"

This should have been an easy decision. My father and his doctor were longtime friends and companions. On wintry ...

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