Georgene White stands for a portrait with a photo of her mother, Teri Sheridan, in Belvidere, N.J., Thursday, April 20, 2023. At age 93, struggling with the effects of a stroke, heart failure and recurrent cancer, Sheridan was ready to end her life using New Jersey's law that allows medically assisted suicide - but she was bedbound, too sick to travel. So on Nov.
At age 93, struggling with the effects of a stroke, heart failure and recurrent cancer, Teri Sheridan was ready to end her life using New Jersey’s law that allows medically assisted suicide -- but she was bedbound, too sick to travel. So last Nov. 17, surrounded by three of her children, Sheridan drank a lethal dose of drugs prescribed by a doctor she had never met in person, only online. She died within minutes.
Soon, others who seek Sheridan’s final option may find it out of reach, the unintended result of a federal move to