“Within a month of her diagnosis, Ms. Andia decided she would chronicle her path to death. She began writing a newspaper column and appearing regularly on podcasts and TV talk shows. She viewed these efforts as one more way she could broaden health care access by demystifying the assisted dying process, and bringing it into public conversation. [...] But as Ms. Andia was discovering, the existence on paper of a right to control one’s death was only a first step. Despite extremely liberal policies, assisted death remains rare in Colombia, blocked by institutional barriers in the country’s conservative medical culture, and the discomfort with talking about death that so frustrated her.”

A Cancer Patient Chose Assisted Death. That Wasn’t the Last Hard Choice.