Sunday, July 19, 2015

60 Minutes: Barbara Mancini was arrested and charged with helping her dying father kill himself.

Anderson Cooper talks to Barbara Mancini about end of life issues, palliative care, and her decision to obey her terminally ill father's wish to take an overdose of medication. They explain that advanced directives are not necessarily controlling. Both sides present their views, those who want to give dying patients the right to make their own decisions and those who think the solution is better comfort care, which prevents the risk of allowing depressed patients to choose suicide when perhaps they should not. "I don't know why better end of life care and death with dignity cannot co-exist," Mancini says. The charges against her were dropped.

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