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New Jersey passes law allowing the terminally-ill to end their lives

The bill will allow doctors to give patients life-ending medication was confirmed the patient has six or fewer months to live. Photo: Courtesy.

Most people believe God gives life and takes it away. But think of this scenario. At the extreme end of the prolonged illness, you are given a legal leeway to take your life to enable you to fade away forever from the excruciating pain.

Does it sound right? Well, it has happened before. It is still happening. This is a tale of some states in America. The latest is New Jersey, which on Monday, passed a bill to give terminally-ill people the right to end their lives. Yes, the right to commit suicide.
The bill dubbed “Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act” was signed on Tuesday into law and grant patients, with six or fewer months to live, the onus to self-administer life-ending medication.

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