A Cancer Patient Chose Assisted Death

Written By Dawid van der Merwe

That Wasn’t the Last Hard Choice.

Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying. That Wasn’t the Last Hard Choice.

Tatiana Andia, who was diagnosed in 2023 with terminal lung cancer, at home in Bogotá, Colombia, where physician-assisted death is legal. But as Ms. Andia was discovering, the existence on paper of a right to control one’s death was only a first step.

 
Dawid van der Merwe
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