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Article: Montana case examines right to have doctor's assistance in suicide; Ruling due in assisted suicide case ; Montana court to decide if doctor had obligation to help end a patient's life
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- September 2, 2009
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KIRK JOHNSON
International Herald Tribune
09-02-2009
Montana case examines right to have doctor's assistance in suicide; Ruling due in assisted suicide case ; Montana court to decide if doctor had obligation to help end a patient's life
Byline: KIRK JOHNSON
Type: News
A dead truck driver is at the center of a right-to-die debate that could make Montana the first state in the United States to declare that medical aid in dying is a protected right under a state constitution.
Robert Baxter was by all accounts a tough man. Even in the end, last year, as lymphocytic leukemia was killing him, Mr. Baxter, a 76- year-old retired truck driver from Billings, Montana, fought on. But by then he was ...