The Montana Supreme Court has ruled that doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill is legal, and that physicians who help their patients "die with dignity" are shielded from prosecution. Ruling on Baxter v. Montana, a case filed by a Billings truck driver who wanted his doctors to administer a lethal dose of medication after being diagnosed with leukemia, the court said it found "nothing in Montana Supreme Court precedent or Montana statutes indicating that physician aid in dying is against public policy."
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this makes me happy. for too long, folks have suffered needlessly. dying is a right- not a crime.
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