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\n DENVER (AP) \u2014 After watching his mother die slowly when he stopped her medication, Neil Mahoney knew he wanted the option of ending his own life peacefully when a doctor told him in July that he had months to live after being diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A physician was willing to help him do that under Colorado’s medically assisted suicide law<\/a>, but she was fired by Centura Health, a Christian-affiliated health system, for violating its guidelines on the issue. . . [Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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