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Assisted dying: Should the six-months-to-die requirement be scrapped in New Zealand?

Isaac Davison
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Senior Reporter·NZ Herald·
9 mins to read


In early 2022, Sarah Smith was ready to die. She had battled chronic health conditions for a third of her 74 years.

“I’m on my way out,” she told her family. “I know I’m on my way out.”

Smith, from Mt Cook in Wellington, had lived a full life. She worked in foreign aid at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leading a student exchange programme. An enthusiastic cook, she later ran the cafe Zephyr, just off Lambton Quay, where her

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