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No Death With Dignity: While Desert Regional, JFK Memorial Are Starting to Support California’s End of Life Option Act, Eisenhower Medical Center Keeps Saying ‘No’

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Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act in October 2015, and the law went into effect on June 9, 2016. But for many Coachella Valley residents who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and given a prognosis of less than six months to live, the end-of-life option remains out of grasp—that […]

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