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DENVER—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. She declined the extended warranty on her car. Sometimes she wonders who will be at her funeral. Those things don’t frighten her much.…

Americans who are nearing life’s end are negotiating those terms with themselves, their families and, now, state lawmakers.

Lawmakers in at least 12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death. The laws would allow terminally ill patients under specified conditions to end their lives with a

DENVER — On a brisk day at a restaurant outside Chicago, Deb Robertson sat with her teenage grandson to talk about her death.

DENVER (AP) — 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. She declined the …

Lawmakers in at least 12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death

Physician-assisted death is contentious and only 10 states and Washington, D.C., allow it.

Americans who are nearing life’s end are negotiating those terms with themselves, their families and, now, state lawmakers.

Only a small fraction of Americans nationwide, about 8,700, have used physician-assisted death since Oregon became the first state to legalize it in 1997

Lawmakers in at least 12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death.