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A Conversation with Gary Knisely & Judy Schwarz The wife of one of my college classmates had a brain tumor that had failed to respond to chemotherapy and radiation, and instead of waiting out the last few months of her life with gradually increasing headaches, loss of ability to function, and perhaps slowly slipping into brain death before her body died, she decided that she wished to intentionally end her life, and to hasten death. Her husband agreed to support her, they had a lovely last evening together and she drank the lethal prescription. Unfortunately, reality invaded this tender and vulnerable scene and the system intervened rushing her to the hospital and reviving her – quite against her clear wishes. What happened next is very important, and well-told in the beginning of this conversation. Very few of us would ever want to be in the kind of situation Gary Knisely found himself in – but it is likely that many of us will find ourselves in his situation, or even that of his wife. What Gary has to