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Traveling to die: The latest form of medical tourism

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In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she’d beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice from her home in Pennsylvania to Vermont. She went not to ski, hike, or leaf-peep, but to arrange to die.

“I really wanted to take control over how I left this world,” said the 61-year-old who lives in Lancaster. “I decided that this was an option for me.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/health/assisted-death-medical-tourism-kff-health-news/index.html


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