As Tests to Predict Alzheimer’s Emerge, So May Debates Over the Right to Die – TIME Healthland: Jack Kevorkian's fervid fascination with death made him a deeply unattractive human being. Yet he forced us to confront questions that, much as we might want to, we cannot ignore. Do some of us face fates worse than death, such that it can be rational and reasonable to request help in committing suicide? And should others of us help them to die?
Recent scientific advances make these questions relevant to millions more Americans. Tests are coming that promise to detect the beginning of Alzheimer's before symptoms of dementia have developed, when the individual is still lucid and competent.
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