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Debbie Ziegler, center, the mother of Brittany Maynard, is comforted by Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, left, and Assemblymember Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015.
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CapRadio's Pauline Bartolone discusses the proposed End Of Life Option act and how some Christian leaders are advocating for it.
Oregon's State Health Officer Dr. Katrina Hedberg will talk about that state's Death with Dignity Act, which has been in place since 1997.
A physician who leads a program on medical ethics at UC Irvine and a member of a coalition against assisted suicide discuss the dilemmas raised by California's "right to die" bill.
A cancer survivor who is suing California for the right to die and Ben Rich, a bioethicist from UC Davis talks about the arguments for legalizing physician-assisted deaths.