'I'm dying, you're not': Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize physician-assisted death
by Jesse Bedayn
Apr 12, 2024
4 minutes
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.
Death doesn't frighten her much. She didn’t cry when she learned two months ago that the cancerous tumors in her liver were spreading, portending a tormented death.
But later, she received a call. A bill moving through the Illinois Legislature to allow certain terminally ill patients to end their lives with a doctor’s help had made progress.
Then she cried.
“Medical aid in dying is not me choosing to die,” she says she told her 17-year-old
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