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Article: SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE ON STATE'S ASSISTED SUICIDE BAN.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- October 2, 1996
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Seventy-year-old Alice Hagli is both encouraged and furious that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether Washington's ban on assisted suicide is legal.
``What business is it of these guys to dictate what a person can do or not do with their own body?'' the Lynnwood woman asked indignantly. ``It's my decision, my choice.''
Hagli, a Lynnwood resident who has terminal cancer, already has made plans to hasten her own death should the malignancy in her lung spread and cause her unbearable pain.
She's happy enough that the lawyers, judges and advocates all get to go to court and perhaps settle this controversy legally. But the high court's final ...