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(By Melissa Bailey for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n
Ten residents slipped away from their retirement community one Sunday afternoon for a covert meeting in a grocery store cafe. They aimed to answer a taboo question: When they feel they have lived long enough, how can they carry out their own swift and peaceful death?<\/p>\n
The seniors, who live in independent apartments at a high-end senior community near Philadelphia, showed no obvious signs of depression. They\u2019re in their 70s and 80s and say they don\u2019t intend to end their lives soon. But they say they want the option to take \u201cpreemptive action\u201d before their health declines in their later years, particularly due to dementia.<\/p>\n
More seniors are weighing the possibility of suicide, experts say, as the baby boomer generation \u2014 known for valuing autonomy and self-determination \u2014 reaches older age at a time when modern medicine can keep human bodies alive far longer than ever before.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n
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