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Who Should Be Able To Seek Assisted Suicide?

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Members of the Final Exit Network, a group that provides counsel to people who want to take their own lives, were arrested in February.

State laws governing assisted suicide vary greatly. 36 states outlaw it, but two states allow physician-assisted suicide, with many stipulations.

Host Neal Conan talks to NPR correspondent Kathy Lohr, who has been covering the Final Exit Network, and Arthur Caplan, the director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

You can listen to the show here.