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Lee Carter, right, and her husband Hollis Johnson embrace outside the Supreme Court of Canada, Feb. 6 in Ottawa. The high court unanimously strucktdown a ban on doctor-assisted suicide for mentally competent patients with terminal illnesses. Ms. Carter and her husband had accompanied her 89-year-old mother Kathleen (Kay) Carter, who suffered from spinal stenosis, to Switzerland in 2010 where assisted suicide is legal, to end her life. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)
Photo by: Sean Kilpatrick
Lee Carter, right, and her husband Hollis Johnson embrace outside the Supreme Court of Canada, Feb. 6 in Ottawa. The high court unanimously strucktdown a ban on doctor-assisted suicide for mentally competent patients with terminal illnesses. Ms. Carter and her husband had accompanied her 89-year-old mother Kathleen (Kay) Carter, who suffered from spinal stenosis, to Switzerland in 2010 where assisted suicide is legal, to end her life. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

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