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Tennessee joins national debate on assisted suicide

Death isn’t a choice. But there are options, and Marian Ziebell has a plan.

She knows how she wants to die.

Turning 82 in June, Ziebell lives in the Uplands Retirement Village in Pleasant Hill, about 90 miles east of Nashville. She suffers from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

Read more from our news partners at The Tennessean.