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12-Year-Old Boy Dies After Contracting Brain-Eating Amoeba at Popular Swimming Spot

It was the kind of summer afternoon families look forward to all year. Clear skies, warm water, and the freedom of a lake day near Columbia, South Carolina. For 12-year-old Jaysen Carr, it was a moment of joy, a dip in Lake Murray that felt like any other. No one could have imagined how that …

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Young Woman With Rare Terminal Illness Chooses to End Her Life Through Voluntary Assisted Dying

At 25, most people are wrestling with first mortgages, career choices or wedding plans; Annaliese Holland is deciding how, and when, her life will end. After growing up in and out of hospital with a rare neurological autoimmune disease that has left her in multi-organ failure and constant pain, the young South Australian has been …

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