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Ageing, indebted Japan debates right to 'die with dignity'
Published Mon, Mar 7, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Tokyo
RETIRED Japanese airline employee Tarou Tanzawa said that he hadn't thought much about his own death until his 84-year-old mother was diagnosed with malignant lymphoma and decided against costly and invasive life-prolonging treatment.
He watched his mother die peacefully at a nursing home where she received only palliative care after checking out of the hospital where she was diagnosed.
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