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My mother, Merian Frederick, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for four years. She ended her suffering with the assistance of Jack Kevorkian in 1993, at the age of 72. She was in control and made the decision herself.

My husband and I were living with our first child in Europe when my mother's symptoms first appeared. That was in 1989. On the telephone, I heard her slurred speech, even before she was aware of it. I worried about alcoholism. Shortly afterward, we moved back to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where my mother lived and I had been raised. Connie, one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Taken from a talk given by Ms. Poenisch at a conference, Families on the Frontier of Dying, held in May 1998 under the auspices of the Center for Bioethics of the Pennsylvania Health Systems. Ms. Poenisch's mother had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with primary bulbar involvement.
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