Ad campaign for pro-assisted suicide group

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An ad campaign for pro-assisted suicide group DignityInDeath.com features a series of park bench plaques telling stories of now-deceased people whose lives, it suggests, may not have been worth prolonging. One plaque is dedicated "to the glory of Kathleen (Kay) Mandell, who at age 32 was stricken by Lou Gehrig's disease that caused her muscles to waste away, one by one, until her throat paralysed and she choked to death while fully conscious."

[via Ads of the World]

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