Right-to-die legislation weighed in 25 states
More than a dozen states, plus the District of Columbia, are considering legislation on medically assisted death.
The laws would allow mentally fit, terminally ill patients age 18 and older, whose doctors say they have six months or less to live, to request lethal drugs.
Oregon in 1997 was the first state to implement such a law after voters approved it, and four other states—Montana, New Mexico, Vermont, and Washington—now allow for medically assisted death.
