Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) E mōhio ana a Dan Swangard ki te āhua o te mate. Hei tākuta, kua kite ia i ngā tūroro e mate ana i roto i ngā hōhipera, i runga i ngā maturuturunga morphine, ā, i runga i te manukanuka. Kua kite ia i te matenga e roa ana mo nga wiki, mo nga marama ranei, i te wa e tu ana nga whanaunga e mataku ana. Heoi, i enei ra, ko ana whakaaro mo te mate o te hunga mate nui kua riro hei whakaaro whaiaro. I kitea a Swangard i te tau 2013 he momo mate pukupuku metastatic onge. Hei tango i te mate pukupuku, ka tangohia e nga tohunga nga wahi o tana pancreas me tana ate, tae atu ki tona mokamoka me tana kopu. I angitu te mahinga, engari e mōhio ana a Swangard, 48, he nui te tūponotanga ka hoki mai anō te mate. A, ki te tae ia ki tētahi wāhi kāore e taea e te rongoā te mahi, e hiahia ana ia kia taea te whakahaere i te wā me te āhua o te mutunga o tōna oranga. "He tino tūturu ki ahau", te kī a Swangard, e noho ana i Bolinas, California. "Tērā pea ko taku ake take tēnei i te tau e whai ake nei". Koinei tētahi o ngā take i uru atu ai a Swangard ki tētahi whakawa i California i te marama kua hipa e whai ana kia tukua ngā tākuta ki te whakahaeretia i ngā rongoā whakamate ki ētahi tūroro e hiahia ana ki te whakatere i te mate. Ki te mea he marama noa iho tana oranga, e ai ki a Swangard, e kore e taea e ia te kī mēnā ka mau ia ki aua marama. "Engari e hiahia ana ahau kia taea e au te whiriwhiri i taua mea", i mea ia. Kua kaha ake te nekehanga tika-ki-te-mate i California me te motu katoa whai muri i te matenga nui o te wahine East Bay me te mate pukupuku roro. I neke a Brittany Maynard, 29, ki Oregon ki te whakamahi i tana ture "Te Mate me te Whakahonore" a ka mate ia i te marama o Noema i muri i te tango i te horopeta mate o nga barbiturates i whakahaua e tana taote. E tono ana te whakawa o California ki te kooti kia tiakina ngā tākuta i te kawenga mēnā ka whakahaeretia e rātau he rongoā whakamate ki ngā tūroro e mate rawa ana, e whai whakaaro ana hoki ki te whakatau i to rātau tūponotanga. E tautohe ana te kerēme, ahakoa he hara ki te ture i California mā te tangata e āwhina i te whakamomori a tētahi atu, ehara ēnei take i te whakamomori. Engari, e tautohe ana te kereme, ko ngā kōwhiringa nā te tangata e mate ana mō te āhua o te whakamutu o tōna oranga, me ngā whakataunga e pā ana ki te tinana ake o te tangata e tiakina ana i raro i te kāwanatanga...
E hiahia ana a Dan Swangard, he tākuta, kia taea te whakahaere i te wā me te āhua o te mutunga o tōna oranga. E ai ki tētahi rangahau o nā tata nei e 54 ōrau o ngā tākuta o Amerika e tautoko ana i te whakamomori āwhina.