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To the Editor: I am troubled that in their examination of the potential cost savings from legalizing physician-assisted suicide, Emanuel and Battin (July 16 issue)¹ relegate what I consider a central issue to an afterthought: the costs borne by individual patients and their families during protracted, terminal illnesses. Just as the nation's ability to spend one seventh of its aggregate wealth on health care is no solace to ordinary people who become seriously ill and face medical bills of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars,² savings may seem small on average but still be very important to the persons . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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