Health | Right to choose fatal fast is tested | Seattle Times Newspaper: After Armond and Dorothy Rudolph began refusing nourishment, the assisted living facility in Albuquerque, N.M., in which they lived tried to evict them. When the family balked, the managers called 911 and tried to have the elderly couple transported to a hospital.
The Rudolphs did leave the facility, and they died in a rented house surrounded by their children and cared for by hospice workers. Now their case has become a rallying point for those who support self-determination at the end of life, and it has raised thorny questions about the rights of residents in assisted living facilities and society's deep unease with hastening death.
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