In November 2014, Chang Chiung-wen (張瓊文) packed a suitcase full of old clothes and left her home. She had spent the previous 18 years taking care of her child and husband, who is paralyzed from the neck down due to a car accident. “I planned to find a place to die quietly,” she says. “If I could not take care of my family, I would only be a burden to them.” Chang had just been diagnosed with mucinous carcinoma in her left breast. After three visits to National Taiwan University Hospital, she was told that the cancer had...
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