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Medical aid-in-dying triumphs

Colorado has become the sixth state to authorize medical aid-in-dying. Early returns show Proposition 106 has resounding approval from voters. It was one of the...

Homestretch: All our coverage of medical aid-in-dying

As ballot initiatives go, Prop. 106 lends itself to some especially intriguing stories. On the pro-side, there are people dying, in pain, desperate for some...

WATCH: Aid-in-Dying Debate with The Indy

On Thursday, Oct. 20, The Colorado Independent hosted a debate about Proposition 106, the ballot measure to give terminally ill Coloradans access to medications that...

Catholics urging activism, money and prayer in opposition to aid-in-dying measure

The Catholic Church is beseeching its members to work against Proposition 106, the aid-in-dying ballot initiative on Colorado’s statewide ballot. As of last week, the...

Without medical aid-in-dying, some patients choose to die violently. Sheryl Randall...

There was a stark difference between who Sheryl Randall was most of her life and who she had become when she tied a rope...

What’s on this 80-year-old cancer patient’s bucket list? Helping to pass...

Patti James has spent her 80 years focusing on her nursing career, responsibilities to her family and foster kids, service to her church and...