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California Bill Would Allow Terminally Ill to End Their Own Lives

Jan 22, 2015 at

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State lawmakers are renewing a call to give terminally ill patients more say over how and when they die. They introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow physicians to prescribe lethal medication to patients who have been given at most six months to live.

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California Bill Would Allow Terminally Ill to End Their Own Lives

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