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‘No One Is Ever Really Ready’: Aid-In-Dying Patient Chooses His Last Day

Aaron McQ
Aaron McQ, 50, poses in his Seattle apartment on Jan. 31. McQ had been battling leukemia and a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, for five years. In November, doctors gave him six months or less to live and confirmed that he qualified to use Washington state’s aid-in-dying law. (Dan DeLong for KHN)

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