Death by Referral: When My Doctor Offered to Help Me End my Life.

May 15, 2023

(Comment Magazine) – The surgeon was correct that for recurrent head and neck cancers like mine, most patients live just a few months regardless of treatment. But for a small fraction of patients like me, pembrolizumab—a novel, preposterously expensive immunotherapeutic drug—sometimes extends life. After almost two years of pembrolizumab treatment, the tumour’s still here. But so am I. And I am still trying to understand why he offered to help me die. And how Christians should respond to MAID. (Read More)