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Lenore Cornel remembers loving the man Thomas Webb was.

The man who enjoyed tennis and hiking, the chiropractor who made connections with his patients,

the thinker who loved nature and had a deep knowledge of the world.

And then in October of 2018, Tom was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer,

uncurable and terminal.

Lenore watched helpless as the cancer transformed her partner in the few months he had left to live.

We couldn't really eat and we did.

He vomited and that made his symptoms even worse as pain worse.

He would moan most of the night and sometimes tears would just be streaming down his face.

It was very hard to see for someone that you cared about. Very hard.

Tom was in severe pain. He was given narcotics but refused to take them.

They gave him brain fog and he wanted to remain lucid.

What he really wanted was a different kind of medication.

He wanted a doctor to be able to prescribe him life-ending drugs so that he could die at home, in peace and on his terms.

But Tom lived in Nevada. A state where medical aid and dying is not yet legal.

I felt very helpless, very frustrated in a lot of ways.

I even researched other states to see if I could get some medical assistance.

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