California Approves Assisted Suicide

California Approves Assisted Suicide

Governor Jerry Brown approved an end-of-life measure allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to quicken the deaths of terminally ill patients Monday. Brown, a former Jesuit seminary student, had difficulty with approving the assisted suicide law saying he had to “reflect on what I would want in the face of my own death." California is now the fifth state to permit assisted suicide, following Vermont, Oregon, Montana, and Washington.