Oct. 1, 1976 – Nation’s First Aid in Dying Statute Signed into Law in CA

California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signs the California Natural Death Act into law and California becomes the first state in the nation to grant terminally ill persons the right to authorize withdrawal of life-sustaining medical treatment when death is believed to be imminent.

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