From the Article:
In statehouses across the country, lawmakers this year will consider bills that, if widely adopted, could chart a new course for how Americans approach end-of-life decisions by giving terminally ill patients a legal means of choosing how and when they die.
Five states already have active legislation around physician-assisted suicide, with advocates expecting that number to reach nearly 20 after other statehouses resume sessions later this month. Bills in New York and Delaware fell short of passing last year, but sponsors and supporters are hopeful, if not confident, the renewed bills will become law in 2025. If passed, they would join 10 states and Washington that already allow a qualifying terminally ill patient to seek a lethal prescription from a doctor.
As Americans take a piecemeal approach to legalization, their global cousins in Canada and the United Kingdom are rapidly remaking their laws. Domestically, the moral and ethical tensions over the issue continue to divide faith, disability and medical communities more than three decades after Oregon became the first state to allow the practice.