Today, at Writing Daze visiting author Robert Orfali makes a compelling case for legalized physician-assisted dying after he watched his wife die from cancer. We had the chance to ask him the following question. Q: Our spouses become so much a part of us that it is hard to go on with live after they pass. Imagine you find a letter from your wife, Jeri, and it said, “Thanks for the adventures now go have your own adventures.” What would some of those adventures be? Robert Orfali and his wife Jeri A: Actually, Jeri left me with an assignment that has thrown me into a new adventure. On her dying bed, she told me, “I waited too long.” Being a cancer patient, Jeri was in support of physician assisted dying as it is practiced in the states of Oregon and Washington. Sadly, that was not an option for her in Hawaii where she died. My “adventure” is to help pass “Jeri’s Bill” in Hawaii to lift that cruel prohibition, and make it eas...
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