A journalist assisted a woman’s quest for suicide. Did he get too involved?

02/06/24 at 04:00 AM

A journalist assisted a woman’s quest for suicide. Did he get too involved?
The Washington Post, by Jeremy Barr; 2/3/24
The Boston Globe acknowledged that writer Kevin Cullen crossed an ethical line by signing a legal form for Lynda Bluestein. But the woman’s husband is grateful for what he did. Kevin Cullen, a veteran columnist for the Boston Globe, spent months shadowing a terminally ill Connecticut woman as she campaigned for permission to have an assisted suicide and ultimately died that way several weeks ago. ... But Cullen did more than just chronicle [her] journey. He also got involved in her story by signing a legal form attesting that she was sound of mind when she requested to die in Vermont, which granted her the right to do so.

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