article_snippet.sent: the retired obstetrician felt tired and short of breath.
article_snippet.sent: the retired obstetrician took the retired obstetrician to the hospital, where doctors discovered malignant masses on the retired obstetrician kidneys — advanced-stage lymphoma.
article_snippet.sent: the retired obstetrician also is in remission.
article_snippet.sent: the retired obstetrician often thinks of a former patient, a 25-year-old woman with metastatic ovarian cancer.
article_snippet.sent: the retired obstetrician wanted to die while the retired obstetrician still was able to communicate.
article_snippet.sent: Liner wasn't able to help ease the retired obstetrician death because the law wouldn't let the retired obstetrician.
article_snippet.sent: I felt like I'd failed the retired obstetrician," the retired obstetrician said.
article_snippet.sent: Years before the retired obstetrician diagnosis, Liner, now 70, became involved with Compassion & Choices, an organization that promotes aid-in-dying.
article_snippet.sent: Like Swangard, Liner doesn't know if the retired obstetrician would take the medication.
article_snippet.sent: the retired obstetrician recently married the woman the retired obstetrician calls the retired obstetrician "beloved" and said the retired obstetrician has lots of plans for the retired obstetrician retirement years, including writing a screenplay and improving the retired obstetrician piano playing.
article_snippet.sent: the retired obstetrician says I'd be hanging on to life by my fingernails," the retired obstetrician said.
article_snippet.sent: But that decision should be the retired obstetrician to make, with the retired obstetrician family and the retired obstetrician doctor, the retired obstetrician said.
article_snippet.sent: I want the comfort of knowing it's up to the retired obstetrician when enough is enough," the retired obstetrician said.