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'Living While Dying' episode 18: The peanut gallery

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Bruce Kramer responds to a series of articles in the New York Times which argue that suicide is a logical choice at the end of life.

He also talks about the decision to surgically install a device which helps him breathe and whether that decision was a way of denying his inevitable death.