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…showed last 75 words of 1258 total…untreatable pain, are allowed to hasten their deaths. Myth; assisted dying laws result in a disproportionate number of deaths of poor, minority and uneducated individuals. Those who have chosen to hasten death have been overwhelmingly well insured and well educated compared to others who die of similar diseases. Between the years of 1998-2000. 97% of the patients were Caucasian, 94% had either private or public insurance, and 43% had college degrees, compared to 12% who died of similar diseases.