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678. Who Gets to Choose a “Good Death”?

Jun 19, 2026 · 50m

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New York is the latest state to legalize medical aid in dying. Stephen Dubner speaks with the governor who signed the law, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, a death doula — and an ethicist who thinks the very idea is wrong.