HeyJaredThe Other Side
An ongoing collection of essays exploring grief, love, and the moral questions surrounding assisted dying—offering connection through story and shared reflection.
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We Agree on Human Dignity. Why Are We So Divided on Assisted Dying? (opens the original)
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There is a strange feature of the assisted-dying debate: people on opposing sides often argue with the same words.Dignity. Compassion. Harm. Justice. Autonomy.Listen long enough, and it can become difficult to understand how people who agree that human dignity matters, that suffering deserves a response and that medicine should not cause harm can reach conclusions that are almost perfectly opposed.The usual explanation is that assisted dying is a battle between autonomy and the sanctity of life.
The Book My Mom Was Supposed to Write (opens the original)
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On Thursday night, I celebrated the launch of The Other Side of the Straitjacket in a room filled with people, holding the book my mom was supposed to write.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$
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