On six previous occasions, most recently in 2007, bills have been introduced in the Legislature to establish a right for mentally competent, terminally ill patients to receive from doctors prescriptions for lethal drugs. None advanced out of either the Assembly or Senate. But this year the conversation seems more serious.
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