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Legal bind means there is no decent end to suffering

Article posted on Sunday 08 January 2012 by DWDnsw

SARA MONOPOLI, a non-smoker, was 34 years old - and 39 weeks pregnant - when diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Alan Rosendorff, 56, was a successful lawyer and strapping bloke who swam kilometres in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay to keep fit, when he learnt his recently diagnosed stomach cancer had metastasised.

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