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NY Assembly Advances Assisted Suicide Legislation

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J.J. Hanson was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given four months left to live.

He lost his ability to read, write, talk and walk and was suffering seizures.

His wife Kristen says he may have taken lethal prescriptions to end his own life during those first few months .

The state assembly passed a bill 81 to 67 to legalize assisted suicide in New York .

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