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New York has continued to see cases and hospitalizations fall in most parts of the state.

The Vermont lawmaker helped pass the medical aid-in-dying law before he received a terminal diagnosis. Learn more from Boston.com.

The wife of a former Vermont legislator and House majority leader says he has died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives

Willem Jewett, a former Vermont legislator and House majority leader, died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives.

Willem Jewett, a former Vermont lawmaker and House leader, died in his home with the help of Act 39, known as the Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act.

Willem Jewett died Jan. 12 at his home in Ripton at age 58, said his wife. He was diagnosed with mucosal melanoma over a year ago.

A former Vermont legislator and House majority leader has died with the help of a law he himself helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives,

A former Vermont legislator and House majority leader has died with the help of a law he helped pass that allows the terminally ill to end their own lives, per the AP . Willem...

Vermont legislator Willem Jewett, 58, passed away on January 12 with using medical suicide, a law he helped to pass, after he was diagnosed with rare form of terminal cancer

WINTHROP, Wash. (AP) — For the first time in 32 years, organizers of the Rendezvous...