
Three events recently converged: the mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s trial for murdering her three children; Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike; and a book I’ve been reading, Unravelling MAiD in Canada. They have one common thread: the medicalization of death. Lindsay Clancy’s strangulation of her children was blamed on a medical condition: postpartum psychosis.

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