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Letters: Words and their varied meanings matter in Minnesota’s End of Life debate

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The End of Life Options Act offers personal agency over how individuals can face death. The one simple word that matters is “choose,” says Patricia Ohmans. Charlie Quimby: Words like “suicide” and “slippery slope’ are being used to stop action.

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Letters: Words and their varied meanings matter in Minnesota’s End of Life debate

Words have meaning — and it varies The “semantic debate” about Minnesota’s End of Life Options Act is worth having. Semantics deals with the relationship between the definition of words and how different people interpret their meaning. In the realm of death and dying, we should acknowledge that language cannot speak with exactitude to every case, culture, faith, and person. As a writer and suicide survivor, I have far too much experience making …

2 months ago·St Paul, United States

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