Personal Narrative: Physician Assisted Suicide

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I’ve never interacted with a Muslim person before I came to college, so I didn’t know how to behave or talk to them. My first interaction was at a chemistry laboratory, a Muslim girl decided to sit next to me. I was worried because I thought that she wasn’t going to like me or that she wouldn’t like that I was Latina. However, when we introduced each other I found her friendly and funny, and she thought the same thing about me. So, once the semester ended, we decided to take another class together because we became good friends. Overall, my meta-perceptions were disconfirmed.

An intergroup conflict that comes to my mind is the physician assisted suicide debate. Many groups believe that a person has the right to end their lives while they are

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