California governor signs right-to-die legislation

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday allowing terminally ill people in the nation's most populous state to take their own lives, saying the emotionally charged bill forced him to consider "what I would want in the face of my own death."

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