As senators question Judge Neil Gorsuch in confirmation hearings this week to fill Justice Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court, I can’t help but think about a patient who asked me to help her die.

She was old, tired and battling a host of medical conditions that would make the coming years difficult and burdensome. She wanted pills to end it all and preempt the misery that she anticipated. I told her I couldn’t comply with her request. Physician-assisted suicide was illegal in my state and it also wasn’t something I was comfortable doing as a doctor. 

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