'I'm dying, you're not': Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize physician-assisted death

04/17/24 at 03:00 AM

'I'm dying, you're not': Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize physician-assisted death 
The Washington Post, by Jesse Bedayn, AP; 4/12/24 
On a brisk day at a restaurant outside Chicago, Deb Robertson sat with her teenage grandson to talk about her death. She’ll probably miss his high school graduation. ... “Medical aid in dying is not me choosing to die,” she says she told her 17-year-old grandson. “I am going to die. But it is my way of having a little bit more control over what it looks like in the end.” ... At least 12 states currently have bills that would legalize physician-assisted death. ... Two states have gone in the opposite direction. ...

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