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Ira argues that someone who is dying is like a developing child.  They go through stages of discovery, insight, and adjustment to changing circumstances.

After Roz moved her parents to a facility near her home, she had to clean out their apartment. She took pictures of many of their piles of items accumulated over the decades. 

Withholding “ordinary” means from a patient is morally problematic when it results in the patient’s death. Ordinary means could include food, water, shelter; or the basic healthcare to retain a person’s dignity. 

This argument is used by persons who believe that active euthanasia should be legal because it will save money for the insurer and insurance companies. 

The New York colony ____________________.

In the first chapter Ira (the author’s) dad died.

Christopher Columbus called the native people he encountered on his voyages Indians because ________.

Roz moved her parents to an assisted living facility in Brooklyn, near her old school.

The settlement of Rhode Island was ________.

The first permanent Spanish settlement in what is now the United States was ______________.