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Boston city councilors voted Wednesday to double their term length from four to eight years. The vote also resulted in a law that will limit candidates to only run for one municipal election at a time. PHOTO BY BRIAN SONG/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

State legislators consider physician-assisted suicide

By Lexi Peery October 29, 2015

As part of an ongoing national conversation about the ethics of allowing terminally ill patients to die on their own terms, state legislators considered a bill about physician-assisted suicide at a Tuesday...

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REYNOLDS: The Right to Die

By Rebecca Reynolds November 4, 2014

A brave 29-year-old woman ended her own life on Saturday in her Oregon home. She was not suicidal; she had a terminal illness. In January, Brittany Maynard received a diagnosis of likely stage 4 glioblastoma,...

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