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Jul 31, 2023

Terminally ill people from Philly, Delaware sue for right to end their lives in N.J.

Andrea "Andy" Sealy, 43, of Philadelphia, with her dog, Dash. Sealy is a plaintiff is a lawsuit against the State of New Jersey to overturn the residency requirement for the state's medical aid in

Andrea "Andy" Sealy, 43, of Philadelphia, with her dog, Dash. Sealy is a plaintiff is a lawsuit against the State of New Jersey to overturn the residency requirement for the state's medical aid in dying law. She has stage 4 breast cancer.

At age 43, Andrea “Andy” Sealy wants to live. But after a double mastectomy, many other surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation to treat stage 4 metastatic breast cancer since 2017, the Philadelphia resident said she doesn’t expect to win this fight.

Instead, Sealy and another cancer patient from Delaware are waging a legal battle for the right to die on their own terms using New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law.

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