When Philip Benight met Becky Golden, they made a promise to stick together, no matter how bad things got. 

Read Ann Neumann's reporting in Harper's. https://harpers.org/archive/2019/02/going-to-extremes-elderly-assisted-suicide-caregivers/. Her book is The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America.

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