Dan Diaz has lobbied lawmakers across the country and gone on Oprah, all to fulfill a promise to his late wife, Brittany Maynard, who put a face on the debate over allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending drugs.
California dealt the national right-to-die movement a huge blow when legislation allowing doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs stalled, but advocates aren't conceding defeat.
A slight majority of New Jerseyans support legislation that would give terminally ill people with a short time to live the option of legally taking their own lives, according to a new Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind poll released Monday.