Conn. woman 1st non-Vermonter granted assisted suicide right

Vermont is one of 10 states that allow medically assisted suicide, but only one, Oregon, allows non-residents to do it.

Lynda Bluestein, 75, has terminal cancer and knows she'll likely die soon, but until Tuesday, she didn't know if she'd be able to choose how or when.

Vermont's law allows physicians to prescribe lethal medication to state residents with an incurable illness.

Bluestein, a lifelong activist, has pushed for aid-in-dying legislation to be passed in her home state of Connecticut.

She is undergoing chemotherapy for her late-stage fallopian tube cancer.

“I wanted to have agency over when cancer had taken so much for me that I could no longer bear it. That’s my choice.”.