One court's verdict: A right to die.

Informs that, in March 1996, Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California ruled that a terminally ill, mentally competent adult has a constitutional right to a doctor's assistance in suicide. Assisted suicide considered by the judge as a personal decision much like that of abortion; Differences between euthanasia and abortion; The possibility that the Supreme Court will ultimately decide the issue in the future.