These are related to the 30 brain lesions, and the steroids needed to reduce the swelling of the brain. She has so many skin lesions that "it feels as though my skin is being torn like someone has a serrated knife." When she was 16 and "a car broadsided me while I was on my bike," her injuries were "really, really painful." Compassion & Choices, which advocates for medical aid in dying, sensibly insists that this terminology, not "assisted suicide," is proper. "I (BEG ITAL)do(END ITAL) want to live," Hoffman says.

Source: Washington Post January 20, 2022 16:28 UTC